Publisher's Synopsis
Do you remember Tommy Bloome, our beloved Leader who led the revolution that kept America out of World War II and established the workers' state?
No? Then perhaps you may remember Tommy Bloome, the alienated kid who tried to assassinate our heroic General Norton in 1947? Not him either?
Well, never mind. You may recall still another Tommy Bloome who...
But maybe you had better read this account that Gordon Eklund has put down of the Americas that might have been, of the ambitions of one idealistic young man who tried to make our country and our world "better" and what happens when he bucks the invisible tides that sweep relentlessly through the courses of human events. It may be Eklund's finest novel--it is certainly science fiction far out of the usual paths.
