Steve Stranghoener

Uncle Sam's White Hat Steve Stranghoener

Jeremiah "Jerry" Ayers is a twentysomething graduate student still living in his parents' basement. He despises his reactionary father and resents his mother's religious faith. Jerry's involvement in activist causes draws him over the line between peaceful protest and anarchy. At this critical juncture, Jerry's life is turned upside down by a mysterious figure with strange powers who takes him on phantasmagorical flights of fancy. Jerry questions his own sanity when his ethereal benefactor, No Name, explains that he's an angel sent from God to rescue him from the forces that have led him to rebel against the country he loathes. No Name doesn't white wash our nation's transgressions but attempts to broaden Jerry's horizons by showing another side of America's legacy. No Name takes Jerry on historical excursions to convince him that Uncle Sam is really the good guy in the white hat. Although Jerry's antithetical views seem cast in stone, No Name brings about a change of heart by time hopping from Gettysburg to Auschwitz, Ancient Babylon to the Alamo and beyond. Uncle Sam's White Hat covers a swath of history in a dizzying ride from the beginning of time to the present with seemingly random stops along a cosmic continuum that, when connected together, lead to a most unexpected but undeniable conclusion.