Corey Sifter is befriended by the wealthy Metarey family, a politically powerful dynasty in New York, and becomes an aide to New York senator Henry Bonwiller as he runs for the Democratic presidential nomination during the Nixon era. A novel about American life and how a tragedy in a presidential campaign affects history, a family, and the life of a young man. Vanity, greatness, and tragedy combine to change history and recreate character and fate