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Cold Glory ReviewInitially, I was a bit put off by the book's premise, setting and characters. However, the more I read it, the more I liked it. The heroes are an out-of-shape history professor from a small college in Oklahoma who cares for his autistic son and a pint-sized Federal agent (who relieves her tension by playing classical piano pieces) working for an agency buried in the Homeland Security Organization called "Research and Investigations Office" (RIO).--There is an Office of Intelligence and Analysis in Homeland Security, and so, the fictitious RIO isn't too far off the mark. Besides, why shouldn't a Federal Agent play classical piano? However, the most difficult-to-swallow conceit in the book is a shadowy group called the "Glory Warriors" who are planning to take over the government based on a document signed by Lee and Grant at Appomattox. If the government became unstable with the simultaneous loss of the Speaker of the House, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the President, some "stabilizing group" was constitutionally warranted to take over. Now doesn't that just sound whack? Who could mangle history that badly?
Well, there is the Lieber Code from 1863, known as General Orders No. 100, Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States, in the Field. However, that code was set up to protect the wanton destruction of private property. Nevertheless, it does point to some historical concern about the instability brought about by the war and some kind of martial law in post-war America. (The Reconstruction Era from 1865 and 1877 brought in martial law.) Looking a little closer, there's General Alexander Haig, who as Reagan's secretary of state famously said, "I'm in control here..." after Reagan was shot, and who more or less was in charge of the government during Nixon's final days.
More recently, Tea Party favorites Michele Bachmann and Sarah Pailin have wonderfully mangled history. Bachmann declared that the framers of the Constitution strived to end slavery, and Palin claimed that Paul Revere was actually telling the Minutemen to preserve the gun laws. (Revere was an NRA spokesperson according to Palin.) However, the King of Daffy history has got to be Glenn Beck, who asked his Fox News viewers, "Why did we buy Alaska in the 1950's?" --apparently the viewers were ok with the date; they just weren't sure of the reason. The fact that Bachmann and Palin (not to mention Beck) have large followings who think that a lot of Constitutional rights are pinko barriers to Right Thinking makes a lot of the fiction in Cold Glory appear far more reasonable than at first blush. Besides, who are you going to believe, some wishy-washy professor with a Ph.D. in history, or a college dropout like Beck? (Take a look at the Amazon customer reviews of Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America--the modal response is "We believe Beck!") Shudder.
B. Kent Anderson, the author of Cold Glory, is not picking a fight with right wing Americans. (I was just pointing out that some people will believe made-up history.) He's not picking a fight with anyone. He's penning an adventure where history is used and misused in a power struggle. The history professor is just trying to get through another day when he discovers documents that the Glory Warriors have construed to be warrants and justifications for their plan to take over the country. The story is how the Glory Warriors, who have infiltrated the government at all levels, go about setting their plan in motion to snatch the documents and take over the government. They're the ones with the ex-military sharp-shooters and tough guys (sort of a dark-side Delta Force). The good guys are a flabby history professor whose life revolves around caring for his autistic son and a young woman who wanted to be a concert pianist but got stuck in a government bureaucracy. It is an imaginative and riveting tale of how the professor and bureaucrat take on the Glory Warriors and peel away the onion skin of the organization to save the country.Cold Glory Overview

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