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Disciplined as a youth by his dedicated father to eventually become President of the United States, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Scott Kersgard, has had a meteoric rise through the political strata. As one of the most powerful men in Washington, Scott has his eyes set on the Presidency. He is driven by an inordinate hunger for power, but is also aware that the present administration is ineffectual in the area of foreign affairs which is exposing the United States to the probability of war with Russia and China. Recalling skeletons from his past, the Speaker is sure that he will never be elected. He conceives a plot to circumvent the line of succession. A story about rural Georgia, deceit, power, and political manipulation.

"Episodes of Revenge" is a saga about the life of a reclusive man that experienced a mind-numbing assortment of pivotal decisions during his life and his resolute reactions to each. Early in his life Jeff Dunbar was advised by his brother to stand on his own two feet and be a reactionary when survival was in jeopardy. The death of Jeff's only brother in the Battle of the Bulge was a catalyst that precipitated his behavioral eccentricities. Dunbar's determined philosophy is Two Eyes for An Eye.

This work is a biography of John Fox, Jr. It draws from personal and family correspondence and covers his entire life, from his birth in Stony Point, Kentucky, in 1862, to his death from pneumonia in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, in 1919. His early life and education at his father's school, his two years at Transylvania University in Lexington, his transfer to Harvard and graduation in 1883, his work for New York newspapers, and his return home in the mid-1880s to work with his half-brother in the coal mines are all documented. In the 1880s he began his first novel, A Mountain Europa, and over the next thirty years wrote dozens of short stories and nine novels from the family home in Big Stone Gap, including Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (his first to gain the status of bestseller) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.