Main Street President
by Dick Elam
About the Book
Main Street President, Elam’s second novel, focuses on the final days of WWI. Henry Schricker is the fictional Vice President, not Harry Truman. The novel begins when FDR dies.
In the turbulent days following the death of President Roosevelt, the ‘accidental president’ Henry Schricker, former governor of Indiana, immediately faces one of the most consequential decisions in history. This man of faith must now be the one who decides to drop an atomic bomb and destroy the Japanese Islands. President Schricker’s story tracks the actual historical events of 1945. How he makes decisions, how the Schricker family
adjusts to those events comprises the fiction.
These events could have actually happened because the author learned that FDR sent an
emissary to ask Governor Schricker if he would consider campaigning as vice-president in 1944. Would World War II decisions made in 1945 been different?
In the turbulent days following the death of President Roosevelt, the ‘accidental president’ Henry Schricker, former governor of Indiana, immediately faces one of the most consequential decisions in history. This man of faith must now be the one who decides to drop an atomic bomb and destroy the Japanese Islands. President Schricker’s story tracks the actual historical events of 1945. How he makes decisions, how the Schricker family
adjusts to those events comprises the fiction.
These events could have actually happened because the author learned that FDR sent an
emissary to ask Governor Schricker if he would consider campaigning as vice-president in 1944. Would World War II decisions made in 1945 been different?
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