So much has interested me in writing this manuscript. Tea Party assumptions are the focus, but each assumption led me down interesting paths, some of which I had not explored before. That is certainly true of evolution and immigration. Self-reliance and politics were well-trod paths that I had pursued before having written four other books over the past twenty years. I certainly don’t expect readers to turn to those earlier works, but I don’t think a writer ever fully disengages from earlier paths. After all, they were intriguing then, and, for me, they remain intriguing now. So I have to admit, if it wasn’t already evident to a reader, that without really planning it, self-reliance was part of my education and getting a law degree. Politics came next as I immersed myself in the work of Ed Koch as a Congressman and later as Mayor of New York City. As for free enterprise, my private law practice with corporate clients taught me a good deal, as well as when business interests were at stake as New York City tried to recover from being on the edge of bankruptcy in the late 1970’s. From City Hall, I experienced the enormous challenge of reconciling free enterprise with politics from day to day. I have been writing as long as I can remember, although when people say “Oh, you’re a writer,” I usually flinch and deny the title. It has …show more content…
For that reason alone, the movement should be a welcome intrusion in everyone’s thinking. The “Notes of George Commoner” offers a similar, but disappointing end to Jefferson Bean’s brief excursion into the real world. For Tea Partiers in a world of their own is not that different, although with much greater staying power in American history, which is why it both attracts and repels so many. I rather doubt that I will write again as I pursue paths that take me deep in a woods that I don’t know and from which I rather doubt I will emerge