* One of the hottest thrillers of the decade
* An exhilarating journey through
America’s hidden history of intrigue and conspiracy
* Stirring and topical must-read
Rick Schmidt’s prescient political thriller
– he wrote the first draft pre-9/11 –
is a brilliant historical gallop through half a
century of subterfuge, civil rights stand-off, scandal
and conspiracy, from the Bay of Pigs to the Twin
Towers and beyond. Taking as his starting-point
JFK’s well-documented promiscuity, Schmidt
opens with the President’s seduction of a
devout, married, African-American woman. Within
two and a half years of the couple’s single
encounter, JFK is assassinated. In a haunting blend
of pathos, courage and ambition, and against all
conceivable adversity, their son rises from poverty
to attain America’s highest office.
Schmidt skillfully weaves together the most important
events and prominent figures of US modern history,
reinterpreting events with the benefit of hindsight
and an in-depth knowledge of the greatest American
conspiracy theories. He takes us into Marilyn Monroe’s
bedroom, J. Edgar Hoover’s wardrobe and JFK’s
cabinet meetings. From here, he leads us into the
brutality of assassination – JFK, Martin Luther
King Jr and Bobby Kennedy – and thence to
the quagmire of Vietnam.
A stirring and topical must-read.
About the Author:
California-based Rick Schmidt is the writer/director
of over twenty independent features. These include
the iconoclastic Emerald Cities and Sundance
Grand-Prize nominated Morgan’s Cake,
released since his feature film debut of A Man,
a Woman, and a Killer (co-directed with Wayne
Wang, Joy Luck Club, Smoke, etc.). Schmidt’s
bestselling guides, Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car
Prices and Extreme DV (Penguin Books),
are considered classics.
Black President is his first novel.
Endorsements for Rick's work includes:
‘Without Rick’s book [Feature
Filmmaking], Clerks would have been an idea
that never made it past this page’ –
Kevin Smith, writer/director of Clerks,
Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent
Bob Strike Back.
‘It is a period [early-to-mid-1990s] I am
inclined to describe as the Rick Schmidt era of
American Film. For it was Schmidt’s 1989 book,
How to Make a Feature Film at Used-Car Prices
. . . that defined that moment as much as the work
of any one of its practitioners’ – Brian
Price, Framework.
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