Returning to America after several years abroad, Sam Clemens declines President McKinley’s personal request that he turn his pen and popularity in support of the ongoing Philippine-American War. After McKinley is assassinated, Teddy Roosevelt imposes strict treason and censorship laws in the name of security. When Sam recognizes just how un-American the new regime really is, he fights back from behind an anonymous pen name. As friends are forced to betray him, he comes to realize just far the flag has fallen--But is there anything he can do about it? The American in His Season blends original fiction with excerpts of public domain and historical documents to paint a 1900 America that resonates with Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons as much as it does our own post-9/11 world. A must-read for fans of Mark Twain, alternate history, and anyone--right or left--who worries about the direction America is going.
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