Hope Author:Aaron Zelman; L. Neil Smith What would you do first if you were elected President of the United States? — Aaron Zelman and L. Neil Smith, who brought you The Mitzvah, now present their answer to that question in an exciting sequel they call Hope. — Hope is the story of Alexander Hope, a young American who comes back from Vietnam, falls in love with a bright, beautiful girl, ... more »and with her starts a pioneering computer business. Thirty years later he's a billionaire, and alone in life. He decides to leave everything he created behind to write books and teach history at a private college.
Almost as a joke, Alex allows a handful of admiring students to enlist him as a candidate for a third party Presidential nomination. His brief campaign rests on a single promise: to enforce the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution -- commonly known as the Bill of Rights -- exactly like the highest law of the land they happen to be. And in a series of astonishing but perfectly plausible political events, he's amazed to discover that he's headed for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.« less