West End

A NOVEL OF ENVY REVENGE AND DIRTY MONEY THE TIME: The beginning of a golden age in American politics in the 1960s--when the constitutional promise of a nation of equal justice under the law appeared realistically attainable.THE PLACE: A fictional intersection of the Kennedy Brothers Camelot in the South where the countrys enduring and painful struggle with racial integration was once again inflamed. THE STORY: The coming of age of one young man and the tragic undoing of another. David Arthur and Tate Weston--born on opposite sides of a great river that not only divides their Southern town but also sets them worlds apart for years to come-- are picked up like leaves by swirling winds and blown in to the magic sphere of Jack Hickenlooper publisher of a crusading Southern newspaper dedicated to equal justice under the law.THE BREW: Westons extraordinary charisma confidence and resolute purpose to be elected president; Arthurs uncertainty naiveté inferiority complex and streak of exceptional luck; Hickenloopers grasp of the Kennedy power and their Machiavellian brand of end-justifies-the-means politics. And oh yes the doting mother the perfect wife the seductive receptionist the crotch artist and the amazing Henri and of course the soiling staples of politics--envy revenge and dirty money.