Best Class You Never Had: A Novel

A classroom of skeptical students and their charismatic teacher make a foray into the nation's past. The characters are fictive; the history-most importantly, the vision of history, grounded in a dying but immortal dream-is real.

History teacher Kevin Lee is retiring from Seneca Falls High School, where he has worked for the past forty years. He decides to use the freedom of his pending exit to toss the state curriculum and teach the U.S. survey as the story of the alluring, inspiring, murde...