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Overview
My title ABSOLUTE POWER! is based on the power that men in business and politics seek to acquire. The use and misuse of that power and the dramatic events that follow. The explosive results of seeking absolute power destroys lives and changes people forever. It forms a trap even the innocent can't escape, particularly when the lust for that last measure of power becomes the only object left worth obtaining. The opportunity for justice against this kind of power rarely occurs but this book pursues an opportunity for justice that only the heroine can obtain with the help of the man deeply in love with her. This is a tale of unrequited love, ambition, political power, intrigue and murder. The story begins on a ranch in Texas and ranges through London, Paris, Greece and Washington, D.C. The main characters, Alexi (ne Gaylord) Wainchester and her love-driven cousin and chauffeur, Ed Kay,(narrator of the story) travel to still war-torn London and Paris prior to Alexi's debut in London before Queen Elizabeth II. Her wedding in Texas to Senator Douglas Wainchester, son of Oklahoma Oil potentate, Douglas Wainchester, Sr., billionaire, is the prelude to Doug's, father-driven, ambitious campaign for the Presidency of the United States. Doug's subsequent election as President, early on embroils him in a political problem, not of his making, and makes an enemy of a powerful and wealthy Greek potentate, Demetrius Nicholas. The President's brother, Bradford Wainchester, as Doug's right hand advisor, and Ed Kay, now an unofficial but trained security agent in the Hoover driven FBI, attempt to protect the President and his first lady, Alexi. However, the intrigue from the first moment of Doug's presidency involves all the characters in a power hungry, deadly event that changes their lives dramatically. Set in the luxurious surroundings of wealth and power in the early 1950's, it characterizes the war weary politics of that era, following WWII, and the push for Women's Rights, undertaken by the books's first lady, Alexi Wainchester. This window to the turbulent politics of the fifties and after with its worldwide power struggles are reminiscent of today's turbulent political scene. Power and romance are often found together and often dependent on each other. Both are notoriously transient. This book provides a story the reader almost knows, cobbled with intriguing unexpected twists, set in an era that saw dramatic changes in the power of many who had long been without that power. You won't put it down!
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940011839795 |
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| Publisher: | connie houser |
| Publication date: | 11/18/2010 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 295 KB |
About the Author
Connie Houser began as a newspaper journalist, national magazine contributing writer, and has completed seven self-published books. "The Letters, Portrait of an Artist, Jim Houser" is a book based on the story of the author and her artist husband's journey to this point that she hope to publish on Ebooks with the new color nook. Her writing flows from event to event, carrying the reader along as a friend whom she wishes to enthrall. Her sytle makes the tale of the the main characters eminetly readable and enjoyable. Politics is still a world only dimly understood by many and Houser, who had some local political involvement in her earlier years, creates a clear view of Washington political intrigue in the early to late fifties. Connie has been included in "Who's Who in America", "Who's Who in the World", and "Who's Who in American Women" since 2004. She is expecially proud of having a listing among the women, who came into their own in the twentieth century by "burning their bras". She has paid her dues as a writer. Her paintings have also achieved some aclaim and awards in the art world.
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