More than just a screenplay and photobook, An All American Boy is tell-all of growing up in the 1950s, when Sam Edwards joined the Army only to get into the kind of trouble at Fort Bragg that nearly cost him years in a military prison.
What else could you expect from, as they used to say, the product of bad blood? Sam's great, great, great grandfather, before his election as the ninth president of the United States, vowed to annihilate the great Iroquois Chief, Tecumseh, and his democratic confederation of tribes, "even into babes in arms." He kept his promise.
Sam's uncle, as security chief of the CIA, was engaged in domestic spying decades before it was fashionable. To top things off, he administered the CIA sponsored attempt by the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro with poisoned cigars.
Sam himself has several times tested the constitutional integrity of the republic by his consistent lack of foresight. While in the army, his arrest for grand larceny-not grand ideas-called up the heroic actions of the military lawyers who had previously defended the Korean War turncoats to challenge the uniform code of military justice when in conflict with the constitutional right to a fair and speedy trial.
An All American Boy is the precursor to Sam's previous book, The Last Days of The Empire.
