Fischer Patriotic

ISBN: 1466471646

Author: Krumm, Brad

Condition: New

Using Fischer Industries, a highly-admired fictional Honda automotive parts manufacturing giant based in Columbus, Ohio, as the analogy for the United States of America, Fischer Patriotic invites readers from all political persuasions to take a second look at the often controversial world of American politics during the first decade of the twenty-first century, against the backdrop of recent events and American history, in an entraining neutral manner, allowing one to step back, take a breath, and look at American political life at arms-length trough the lens of a workplace setting, instead. Readers are invited to look at events such as September 11th, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the financial crisis of Fall 2008, the 2008 Presidential Election, and the role of unions and community organizing groups though the lens of American and Japanese business sensibilities as well as from the vantage point of the personal worldviews held by the real life politicians and decision makers who influenced these times and events, allegorically inside the walls of Fischer Industries, while acknowledging their real world counterparts in both persona and occurrence outside the confines of this story, taking care to separate in a respectful manner the allegorical characters and events from the real world counterparts they are meant to portray, especially in terms of September 11th. The characters not only watch but participate in choosing their next leader, The CEO of Fischer Industries (The President of the United States), in an employee-owned company, where an employee/shareholder election is held to decide the replacement for outgoing CEO Jimmy Barnes during a month long election held in February 2008, a no-holds barred election which takes place between the well established management figures of Lloyd McPherson and Janet Wright, an election where a charismatic relative newcomer to management and to the company too, Duane Farnsworth, tosses his hat into the ring.