The American Dream — James Philip

It is November 1964: there has been a bitterly contested Presidential election; the war in the Midwest has become bogged down in the rain and the cold of the coming winter; the peace conference is deadlocked at the old United Nations building in Manhattan; and the ongoing reverberations of the events of early July seem to overhang everything like some dreadful Biblical blight. The American people are in shock, divided rather than united by the result of the Presidential race, yearning for strong leadership and a new start. But the slate cannot be wiped clean, Wisconsin and northern Illinois, the great ruined city of Chicago are in the hands of rebels whose God demands an ‘end of days', and all the surrounding states are wracked by a random, bloody, ongoing terrorist insurgency. Two years after the ‘war to end all wars' the American people are confronting the reality of the altered world. As the US's ‘peace dividend' weakened armed forces begins again to flex its slowly recovering offensive muscle a second war rages in the Korean peninsula and American and British forces circle each other warily from the North Atlantic to the Straits of Hormuz, and the wounded Soviet bear broods behind its borders. If the nightmare of a new global thermonuclear war has receded somewhat; nothing has actually been settled. There is no peace or prospect of it any time soon at home or abroad and meanwhile, in Philadelphia the Warren Commission on the Conduct and Causes of the Cuban Missiles War is sitting in open session in City Hall... Whatever has become of the American Dream? ________ A NOTE ABOUT THE PLANS FOR THE TIMELINE 10/27/62 SERIES. I have had so many questions lately that I am going to use the rest of the ‘blurb/promo' space for ‘The American Dream' to speak directly to my readers. ‘The American Dream' is the fourteenth installment of the series â€" or rather, ‘saga' as it has become - and the simple answer to the question: what do I plan to do with the series? Is that I shall carry on! At the time of writing, Crow On The Cradle (Main Series Book 10) is in preparation for release later in 2017. This book synchronizes the Main and USA series in the winter of 1964-65. All Along the Watchtower, The American Dream and Crow On The Cradle are effectively direct sequels, so to avoid confusion â€" and questions about which one to read first â€" I will be releasing The American Dream on Friday 11th August 2017, and Crow On The Cradle on Friday 27th October 2017. Early in 2018 there will also be an excursion to Australasia in two books: Cricket On The Beach and Operation Manna, both departures from the style of the Main and USA series prompted by Timeline 10/27/62's loyal Australasian readership. These two books ‘fill in' the gap between Operation Anadyr and Aftermath and their respective sequels, Love is Strange and California Dreaming, exploring what the post-October War looked like from outside the USA and the UK. I plan to publish these two books in the spring of 2018 (if all goes according to plan Cricket On The Beach in January or February 2018, and Operation Manna in March of April 2018.) Looking further ahead, in 2018-19 â€" the Timeline Main series will move on with Book 11 and Book 12 (provisionally Book 11 will be released in the summer of 2018 and Book 12 in October 2018). ________ This re-proofed, re-formatted and revised edition of The American Dream was uploaded on Sunday 10th September 2017.