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2023 Update - Second Edition Available>In describing the Second Edition the author writes, "One point of great gratitude I must express is to someone I do not even know. In fact, this person, A. Kracht, gave a horrible yet very helpful review on Amazon when Volume 1 initially came out. In the movie business, like the TV industry, we test market products and can make some changes before a film's release. In Television, the "pilot" is used for this purpose and the genesis of some very successful shows are pilots that are radically different from a show's eventual run. As a film producer I was trained and therefore as a writer viewed comments about Volume 1 in the same manner - a great gift. Receiving feedback and altering the material accordingly can be, and has been for me, a rewarding experience and several great life lessons. I often think of the difference between the Seinfeld pilot and the show being a major hit as a prime example. In this respect, Volume 2 is written completely differently than Volume 1 and I think the book and the commercial product itself is better for it. So thank you to my anonymous reviewer and all those who gave comments." For the Second Edition please visit https: //amzn.to/3qJuMDN. Introduction>-Twenty year old Gertrude, daughter of the current "Mrs. Vanderbilt" and Cornelius Vanderbilt II, is torn between her sexuality and her parents' insistence that she be properly married to a man who will add social status to their ruling branch of the House of Vanderbilt. -Gertrude's first cousin Consuelo, daughter of Alva Vanderbilt and William K. Vanderbilt, is being forced into a loveless marriage with England's Duke of Marlborough. Alva believes that if Consuelo is the first American to become a European Duchess, both she and her branch of the Vanderbilt family will attain status equal to her nemesis, the reigning Mrs. Vanderbilt, and her longtime adversary, the current "Queen" of High Society, Mrs. Caroline Astor. -Gertrude's brother Neily Vanderbilt has been in love with Grace, of the House of Astor, since they were teenagers. Several years earlier, as the most sought after debutante, she was secretly engaged to Neily's older brother, William Vanderbilt heir apparent, who died while studying at Yale. Mrs. Vanderbilt threatens Neily, the next in line that marrying an Astor would mean giving up his birthright, along with the social status and the riches that would make him one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world. As the families' matriarchs and patriarchs rule and manipulate the lives of their offspring to achieve their own aims, their children will be forced to choose between love and independence or status and wealth. Seen through the eyes of an eighteen year old lady's maid, and written in the second person, the time-honored stories of these young women, their suitors and lovers, secrets and betrayals, are told through a fictional author who uses alternate history to share their struggles and pain with empathy and insight.

On Election night, there is no clear winner, and the next day, even with 100% of the precincts reporting, the results are too close to call. This time the recount is in Ohio, and after several tedious weeks, The Supreme Court hands Ohio to the Democrats, thereby making the Republican incumbent a one-term President. A month later, the Congress, Cabinet and Supreme Court gather at the Capitol to hear the State of the Union. Only two of the nation's top leaders are not present, the newly appointed Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, James Jimmy Hunter who is attending his daughter's wedding, and the Secretary of Transportation, Clarence Wilson, the only Republican in the Cabinet. According to tradition, one cabinet member is left behind as a precaution for the continuity of government in the event of a disaster. Secretary Wilson thus escapes the fate of the rest of the Cabinet when a terrorist attack kills everyone at the Capitol, leaving him the new President of the United States. AMERICA FIRST is an action packed story of terrorism, treason, a Red State / Blue State civil war, and an investigation that leads into the highest political offices in the land. Originally written as a screenplay, on the morning of January 22, 2017, two days after Trump's Inauguration, Hollywood producer Ari Newman quickly adapted AMERICA FIRST. It became the first book to be both written and published after Donald Trump became President of the United States.