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In 1997, Clearwater, Florida was just coming off a tumultuous riot after a young black man was shot and killed by the police. A hotbed of racial tension, drug dealing gangs, the headquarters of The Black Socialist Party, Scientology, and every latest P.C. social engineering program, with church, academic and political leaders all seeking federal aid money, the city was simmering toward a fresh eruption. Into this midst came President Clinton, making a visit to dole out those dollars.

Produktbeschreibung
In 1997, Clearwater, Florida was just coming off a tumultuous riot after a young black man was shot and killed by the police. A hotbed of racial tension, drug dealing gangs, the headquarters of The Black Socialist Party, Scientology, and every latest P.C. social engineering program, with church, academic and political leaders all seeking federal aid money, the city was simmering toward a fresh eruption. Into this midst came President Clinton, making a visit to dole out those dollars.
Autorenporträt
With a Ph.D. in literature and critical theory, Marcus Baldwin has been writing, editing, and teaching for thirty-seven years. While living and teaching in Clearwater for 20 years, he became all too familiar with the neighborhoods and people he writes about in The Clinton Coming. During his teaching career, he taught many pieces of modern American literature that influenced his style and sensibility. He's also published a novel about the 1992 L.A. riots, An Uprising of Angels, a scholarly study of Ernest Hemingway, and numerous articles in various literary journals.