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by Ross Stein (Author)
It's 2024 and three-hundred-year-old Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Baron von Munchausen sits in a bar enjoying a glass of wine over a plate of kippers. The legendary spinner of tall tales and self-proclaimed "ambassador of the irrational" has just completed a whirlwind tour of America. Crisscrossing an increasingly divided nation, he's settled a particularly perilous Supreme Court case (mercifully, with the loss of only three justices), verbally jousted with an evangelical preacher on the nature of divine love while riding a church through a tornado, and single-handedly solved the global climate crisis! Now it's time for a well-earned respite.
Recounting these and other improbable adventures between puffs of an old briarwood pipe, Munchausen bends the ear of his drinking companion, a concerned citizen of the United States who, like many others, trembles for the future of democracy. Together the two contemplate the slow death of rationality in a free society, and whether fear and paranoia will ultimately triumph over hope and reason.
It begs the question: with the body politic at one another's throats, and daily calls for book bans, wall building, and even civil war, can the fabled cannonball rider and raconteur extraordinaire take on his most outrageous adventure yet and save this country from itself?
