Negative Peace

<p>All he wanted was to create world peace. Negative Peace. Negative Peace would have to do. Positive Peace - the presence of justice and respect for human dignity would just have to wait. Was ending war a bit ambitious? Of course it was. Was it worth trying? Certainly. To succeed Joshua Sheehan the first President of the United States from Maine would have to be bold decisive and trustworthy. Trustworthy that most elusive trait. And he would have to go curling with the Chinese president too.</p><p></p><p>From architectural school to the mayor's office in Bucksport Maine where he faced down the book-banning Moms for Freedom to the governor's mansion to the White House Joshua had decisions to make. Would he make the right ones?</p>