UNDICI: Eleven Ways That Vermont Is Going Down The Johnny Flusher

About the Book

A unique twist of fate led me to go from a traditional Jesuit university, Gonzaga, to one of the most liberal state schools, the University of California at Santa Cruz, at that time known as the archetypal "hippie school". That juxtaposition informs Undici because at Santa Cruz I was exposed to many gallons of progressive pap, and I saw it as such because of the earlier education! Undici is about Vermont but it is really about any unquestioned adoption of the progressive's mantra. My parents and one fiery Italian coach also gave to me the common sense and faith to debate, rebut and challenge the accepted doctrines of the day.

About the Author

I have always loved to write and have been a voracious reader since high school. I used to like fiction but now only return to favorites (Hemingway and Joyce in particular), preferring instead history and biography. If I have any talent as a writer it is God given and only improved by effort. Our little ship of five (myself, my wife Kate and our three children - Emily, Edward and Sophia) sails in upstate New York where we fight corruption, excessive state spending, and bullying and hazing every day.