Book Release Lecture and Reading
Join Dr. Jack Miller for a lecture on Trump-era politics and a reading from his new novel, Silent Majority.
Exploring the human costs of political success while also painting a hopeful picture of how regular Americans might take back their nation from performative ideologues and intolerant extremists, Silent Majority tracks a painful political awakening during the Obama and Trump years by following the rise of a suburban businessman from a placid non-political life to a seat in Congress.
Dr. Miller is a Teaching Associate Professor in PSU's Department of Politics and Global Affairs specializing in American politics, political theory, and political fiction. He is the author of two previous novels, 1994, a novel of politics (2019), which depicts the struggles of a young female political strategist running a Democratic Senate campaign during the Republican wave election of 1994, and Invisible Empire (2020), a father-daughter drama set amid the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Astoria, Oregon in the early-1920s. He is currently working on his fourth novel, The Myth of America, an alternate history based on the idea that the United States lost the Revolutionary War and had to struggle an additional half century for independence.