Hobblebush, a NH based publisher, doesn't usually publish fiction. The foreword that Benjamin Franklin scholar Michael Zuckerman wrote convinced them to take a look at the manuscript and the extraordinary work of author Tom Fitzgerald convinced them that this book needed to be brought to as wide an audience as possible. From the West Wing of the White House to the “Celestial Trial” of Ben Franklin, to the slums of Philadelphia, Poor Richard’s Lament takes us on a whirlwind tour of time and space.
"But the beauty of this book is not just in its verbal pyrotechnics, ravishing though they are. It is, still more, in the constant breath of humane inspiration that guides a steady succession of searing, soaring triumphs of communion and caritas. Fitzgerald is that rarest of birds: a great writer and a great soul. He has summoned from unfathomable depths of despair an imagining of the greatest of Americans that is not only better than the original but also worthy of his own remarkable spirit." (Foreword, p. xiv)
Author Tom Fitzgerald will be at Gibson's for a reading and book signing on Thursday, January 19, 2012 beginning at 7pm.
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