In this humorous and desperately honest re-examination of his long happy life, this writer sees more than he bargained for: a map of the Route to Enlightenment for one thing, but also, along the way, a model for What Went Wrong in America. It’s all here, the two Great Depressions, the sliding decline of sanity from FDR to Obama, the ascension to respectability of the nut fringe, the denouement to come. And more: it all began in Akron, Ohio, on his watch! The reader is treated to a scene with Alan Freed in 1948 (he swears it’s true) as rock n’ roll is born in the back seat of a Nash Lafayette on the way to a high school dance. You’re there in Akron for more insanity: the birth of the megachurches, the “Rapture,” the Religious Right. America really ended in 1945, we learn, with the death of FDR, as more “r”s came on: Ronald Reagan, Ayn Rand, Republicans, … From there, all downhill.
Enter the Cosmic Lady, warning us of the new quake. We won’t escape. It’s too late. Too much insanity. America will have to start all over—but for now, and most important anyway—for each of us, there’s that matter of the Total Truth. The Lady shows us the way... You may be surprised.