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Using Fischer Industries, a highly-admired fictional Honda automotive parts manufacturing giant based in Columbus, Ohio, as the analogy for the United States of America, Fischer Patriotic allows readers from all political persuasions and all walks of life to take a second look at the often controversial world of American politics during the first decade of the twenty-first century, against the backdrop of recent events and American history, in an entraining neutral manner, allowing one to step back, take a breath, and look at American political life at arms-length trough the lens of a workplace setting, instead. Readers are invited to look at events such as September 11th, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the financial crisis of Fall 2008, the 2008 Presidential Election, and the role of unions and community organizing groups though the lens of American and Japanese business sensibilities as well as from the vantage point of the personal worldviews held by the real life politicians and decision makers who influenced these times and events, allegorically inside the walls of Fischer Industries, while acknowledging their real world counterparts in both persona and occurrence outside the confines of this story, taking care to separate in a respectful manner the allegorical characters and events from the real world counterparts they are meant to portray, especially in terms of September 11th.

Fischer Patriotic not only invites readers to take a second look at the events and policy makers comprising the American political landscape trough their own eyes, but invites one to do so through the eyes of the characters in the story too ranging from the youthful, intelligent, and attractive 20 something Jillian Neal to the middle aged, professional family man Fred Hutchinson, as the characters in the story watch events affecting Fischer Industries and themselves unfold – all the while, contributing what they can from their perspective positions to Fischer society. The characters of the story not only watch but also participate in choosing their next leader, The CEO of Fischer Industries (The President of the United States), in an employee-owned company, where an employee/shareholder election is held to decide the replacement for outgoing CEO Jimmy Barnes during a month long election held in February 2008, a no-holds barred election which takes place between the well established management figures of Lloyd McPherson and Janet Wright, an election where a charismatic relative newcomer to management and to the company too, Duane Farnsworth, tosses his hat into the ring.

Fischer Patriotic is not just about politics. Embedded are subplots unrelated to politics as well, such as an office romance between Jillian Neal and her future husband, Hiro Nishimura, a Honda Staffer, not to mention a whole host of sports analogies, mostly college football; after all, the setting is Columbus, Ohio. There is a Band of Brothers/Founding Fathers subplot, where Fischer Industries founder, Abe Fischer, and his good friend Arthur Barnes Senior, both World War II Army buddies, establish Fischer Industries as an employee-owned company in an effort to create something new and hopeful out of the ashes of World War II not long after they both return to Columbus following the war, memories of the violence of the War in Europe still fresh in their minds – like any good founding father, taking the best from history and their personal experiences, while disregarding the rest. There is an immigrant’s tale subplot where both the challenges and achievements so often experience by first and second generation Americans is discussed - immigrants ranging in diversity from German to Hispanic to Japanese Americans. All and all Fischer Patriotic invites you, the reader, to read, consider, and draw your own conclusions. Enjoy.

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