Karl G. Trautman

Deacon Blues (Manfred Schmidt, #1) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Flawed Hero

June 2024 marked the 52nd anniversary of the Watergate break-in. Less than two years later, President Nixon resigned in disgrace and the nation felt exhausted and disgusted at the details of the scandal. One-term Georgia governor Jimmy Carter would soon declare his bid for the presidency and miraculously get elected in 1976. America was full of hope for renewal.

My book, Deacon Blues, transports you back to that remarkable seven year period between 1973 and 1980 as seen by an angst-filled American adolescent. A child of divorce, the protagonist Manfred Schmidt craves for belonging and respect and takes on Jimmy Carter as his hero. The tale begins in Bethesda, Maryland where Manfred lives with his journalist dad and older brother. Just before his senior year of high school, Manfred moves to Ireland where he follows the ups and downs of Carter from Europe. He starts college in Boston but drops out and moves to New Hampshire to live with his brother. It is there where he finds himself and decides to devote himself to working for Carter's re-election campaign.

Deacon Blues is a coming-of-age story about idealism, adventure, naiveite, hope and the power of dreaming.

Deacon Blues is the first book of the Manfred Schmidt tetralogy. Book Two is Sweet Dreams Are Made of This, Book 3 is Road To Nowhere and Book 4 is Losing My Religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Flawed Hero Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781393379157
• Artikelnr.: 59937148

Autorenporträt

Karl G. Trautman is the author of the Manfred Schmidt series of fiction books. The first three volumes, Deacon Blues, Sweet Dreams Are Made of This and Road To Nowhere have been published. He is also the editor of the non-fiction book, The New Populist Reader and the author of the non-fiction book, The Underdog in American Politics The Democratic Party and Liberal Values.

He received his doctorate in political science from The University of Hawaii and has taught in Denmark and Japan as a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer. He has been a college teacher in Michigan and Kansas and been a research assistant for Meet The Press. He currently teaches in the Public Service and Social Sciences Department at Central Maine Community College.