“In America, 2023 was a year of indictments, more indictments and even more indictments — state, federal, civil and criminal — of Donald Trump, and the most dangerous indictment of all, that our country had lost its way and that our nearly two-hundred-and-fifty-year experiment as a democratic republic was on its way to self-destruction. It all began to feel like Germany, Italy and Spain in the 1930s. Past as prologue. The march of ever louder, ever more numerous voices in sync with an eerie vision of authoritarian rule.”
In the vein of celebrated English diarist Samuel Pepys, author O’Neill weaves his observations about contemporary politics, daily life and culture into an overview of America that is at once poetic, revealing, depressing and forever searching for people, events, and behavior that define who we are. — Kirkus Reviews
Denis O’Neill is the author of a Dartmouth College memoir, Whiplash: When the Vietnam War Rolled a Hand Grenade into the Animal House; two outdoor thrillers: The River Wild and Canis Dirus; a children’s book, Bradford’s Walk, and two previous volumes of Musings, Pandemic Musings and Musings — 2022. He wrote two original screenplays, The River Wild, starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon, and A Shot at Glory, starring Robert Duvall and Michael Keaton. He is a former writer/producer for the PBS station, WGBH-TV, in Boston. A published poet, he is also the author of numerous magazine articles and short stories. His collection of short stories, Jim & I, will be published in 2025. He has three sons and lives in Santa Barbara, California.
