The Clinton Coming

In 1997, Clearwater, Florida was just coming off a tumultuous riot after a young black man was shot and killed by the police. A hotbed of racial tension, drug dealing gangs, the headquarters of The Black Socialist Party, Scientology, and every latest P.C. social engineering program, with church, academic and political leaders all seeking federal aid money, the city was simmering toward a fresh eruption. Into this midst came President Clinton, making a visit to dole out those dollars.

In 1997, Clearwater, Florida was just coming off a tumultuous riot after a young black man was shot and killed by the police. A hotbed of racial tension, drug dealing gangs, the headquarters of The Black Socialist Party, Scientology, and every latest P.C. social engineering program, with church, academic and political leaders all seeking federal aid money, the city was simmering toward a fresh eruption. Into this midst came President Clinton, making a visit to dole out those dollars. "The Clinton Coming" is a gripping novel that follows the lives of those who found themselves in the trenches of those volatile times. Anwar Branch is a young black preacher whose love interest and best friend is Sonja Macetti, the daughter of an ex-vice cop, Mike Macetti, who is now a car salesman and leader of a white militia. They clash head on with the drug dealing, gang banging Crips and the Black Socialist Party, both holding Clearwater hostage to their crime and violence. Get ready to dive headfirst into some of the tensest years of the 20th century that are still profoundly relevant today.

With a Ph.D. in literature and critical theory, Marcus Baldwin has been writing, editing, and teaching for thirty-seven years. While living and teaching in Clearwater for 20 years, he became all too familiar with the neighborhoods and people he writes about in "The Clinton Coming". During his teaching career, he taught many pieces of modern American literature that influenced his style and sensibility. He's also published a novel about the 1992 L.A. riots, "An Uprising of Angels", a scholarly study of Ernest Hemingway, and numerous articles in various literary journals.