Why I Wrote The Nation We Knew
b"Steve Shepard's newest novel, The Nation We Knew, is a hot seller right now, because of its theme: What would the United States look like\\u2014what would it represent\\u2014if leadership suddenly put country before party, possibility before dogma, and created a vision of a better future and then executed against that vision? In this thought-provoking book, a new president takes the country to task\\u2014and reinvents government, healthcare, job creation, foreign relations, transportation infrastructure, and education, and with the help of her unlikely cabinet, shows the nation\\u2014and the world\\u2014what could be, rather than what is. In this episode, Steve explains why he wrote the story, an idea that came to him eight years ago."