PG Smith – Exploring Life in America Through History and Fiction
Author of ‘Thaddeus Lamb’ and forthcoming ‘Woman Out of Step’
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P.G. Smith
PG Smith is a retired university professor who taught philosophy and jurisprudence for 26 years. She published five books with elite presses, and numerous journal articles, all best sellers with the other 247 people in her field. Yet she yearned for a wider audience. Always an observer of cultural change, she is fascinated most by what people believe and why they believe it. Given how depressing that hobby has become in recent years, she also goes on hiking adventures and practices yoga a lot. After residing in many places: Detroit, Florida, Arizona, Kentucky, Switzerland, Israel, Ohio, and New York City she retired to the shores of the mighty Ohio River, not far from most of her children but not too close either, where she can write novels and poetry and ponder the vicissitudes of life. Thaddeus Lamb (or, Taking America Back) is her first novel. Her second, Woman Out of Step is forthcoming in 2025. Never a slacker, she is also working on a collection of short stories.
Thaddeus Lamb: Or, Taking America Back
The story of a true believer and a man of God, who is having a terrible time protecting his small town, family, and church from the ravages of social change in the sinful ’70s. But like the mighty Don Quixote de la Mancha, he dares to dream the impossible dream: that a man of sufficient faith and fortitude can reverse the march of time itself. This, he believes, is his mission from God.
Alas, it is a duanting quest. Satanic Steve, the station manager, torments him about his low TV ratings. His church is facing bankruptcy. His daughter is turning into a liberal feminist before his fundamentalist eyes, and then he is sorely tempted by a man on a crusade of his own. Roger Wright is a brilliant political strategist who intends nothing less than to reverse the direction of politics in America.
Hilarious and heartbreaking, this meditation on the turbulent decade of Nixon and Carter examines the forces that divide uour nation today and provides a fictionalized account of the right-wing campaign to recruit evangelical ministers into politics.
Available on Amazon or at Author House.
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