RUN: A novel about one's man quest to save this country from itself

Is it easier to win American Idol or to become president? To save the United States, Noa Kalakaua knows he'll have to do both.

He has no money. He's never held elected office and he'll turn 35 just days before the election. No one knows him. He's a member of neither the Republican nor Democratic party and he knows no independent candidate has ever come close to contending for the White House. Despite that, he knows he must run.

He's not a statesman, but he has movie star good looks, a magentic personality, and a magical voice. He also has a Ph.D. in economics and knowledge that the United States is flirting with financial and economic disaster. If the American people and their legislators don't start making serious changes, he knows all the government's trillions of dollars of income will one day go only to Medicare, Social Security, and to pay interest on the debt, and that millions of Americans will end up on their asses living in abject poverty not seen on such a large scale since the Great Depression.

He also knows that, despite what the presidential candidates say, change in Washington DC can't happen as long as the interests of the American people are subordinated to the self-interests of a small group of career politicians who spend carelessly and refuse to deal with critically important issues for fear that it would cost them votes.

Through a series of third person accounts published or broadcast by media outlets like the New York Times, the Associated Press, the Chicago Tribune, the New Yorker, Esquire, NBC Nightly News, and Time, Run tells incredible story of how Noa Kalakaua uses the American people's fascination with celebrity to reinvent democracy, inspire the American people to think, and to attempt to save a nation careening toward disaster.

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* This novel has not been published. If you're interested in reviewing sample pages, please contact G.R.