The High Road: Following the Campaign Trail for a Kinder America

by Tommy Zurhellen

Overview

Can kindness win an election in America?

In 2019, Navy veteran Tommy Zurhellen walked across America alone, to raise awareness on veteran homelessness and suicide in our country. In 2023, he embarked on another journey much more perilous: running for local office as a Democrat in the Republican stronghold of Dutchess County, New York. His platform? Kindness. His chances? Not good.

Can you win an election in America today with only kindness, and zero negativity? Find out in this humbling and humorous account of one veteran's descent into the strange and scary underworld of American politics.

All proceeds from The High Road will benefit Hudson River Housing's programs to help fight food insecurity and homelessness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781966293002
Publisher:	Epigraph Publishing
Publication date:	01/07/2025
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Tommy Zurhellen is the author of the award-winning Messiah Trilogy of novels, which reimagine the life of Jesus in modern-day rural America: Nazareth, North Dakota (2011), Apostle Islands (2012), and Armageddon, Texas (2014), all from Atticus Books. His memoir The Low Road: Walking the Walk for Veterans (2021) follows his solo trek across America in the summer of 2019 to raise awareness on veteran suicide and homelessness. His short stories have appeared widely in Carolina Quarterly, Passages North, Crab Creek Review, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. Since 2019, Tommy has delivered a weekly veterans update as "Commander Tom" on 101.5FM WPDH with the Boris & Robyn Show, and he has also appeared regularly on 100.1FM WDST Radio Woodstock with his friend Greg Gattine. He served honorably in the United States Navy as a Nuclear Electrician onboard the USS Truxtun and USS California. With the help of the G.I. Bill, he received his M.F.A. from the University of Alabama and has taught Creative Writing at Marist College for the past twenty years. The High Road is his second memoir.