Foundering Fathers brings three great American heroes--Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and a mother from another brother, Abigail Adams--together for an adventure in modern day Washington, D.C.
The setup: a brilliant but mad American scientist, Dr. Gregor Meddlesohm, perhaps funded by evil foreign interests, clones the colonial heroes from the afterlife. Terrorists from the `Stans (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrkgibostan, & Younocanistan) try to kidnap our heroes and put them on YouTube. The infidels escape by crawling in tunnels under Lafayette Park using a smart phone based on the technology developed as a result of Benjamin Franklin's research into electricity.
Then comes the payoff of this comic, historical fiction, as the Foundering Fathers, a most talented trio, find themselves as tourists in a contemporary city that pays homage to their former lives, while trampling on many of their founding ideals. They rediscover a Capitol rife with corruption, and view historical paintings that have mysteriously erased figures in an effort to sanitize the history of the United States. Many funny misadventures ensue: in the National Archives, the Pentagon, military training camps, the Federal Reserve, the White House, Fannie and Freddie Mac, as they witness the progress, or lack thereof, of their fair republic.
In a bracing peek into contemporary local politics, the trio has a scuffle with the (dis)honorable Congressman Patrick James Moronico and his son. Congressman Moronico resembles my local village idiot, James Moran, who has received a mandate from the lemmings in the 8th Congressional district of Virginia for 12 disastrous terms. Rep. Moronico usurps his power by collecting an absurd amount of public funds to build a fictitious airport to nowhere and hires his son to strong arm any opponents. The Founders echo his hollow sentiments that D.C. is a place where public `servants' call the shots for the appropriation of tax dollars with disregard to `Joe Blow' and `to spend as we damn well please!' What's next? Voter fraud!?*! This chapter, as many of the others, is a thinly veiled recounting of and sardonic commentary on actual events.
The Foundering Fathers follows author Ed Moser's successful `A Patriot's A to Z of America: Things that Every Good American Should Know', as a comparison between old school rules and the new regime. I appreciate the book's mix of humor, history, espionage, and Inside the Beltway antics.
The cartoons that accompany the Founders' capers are a great addition to this historical fiction book.
Reading this exciting book is a great trip through my hometown's political heroes of yesterday, who offer hope for tomorrow: Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and Abigail Adams.
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