The Oval Menace

About the Book

As the United States and the world tire of the war on terrorism, the media of the United States engage in full scale vilification of the nation's president.

The Democratic Party, feasting off of the media's banquet of barbs and bullets, quickly seizes the moment to re-take the White House in November, 2004.

Due to the emergence of a weak, front running nominee, the Democrats broker their nominating convention and select a senator from Missouri as their choice.

Mary Lou Anderson receives full media support and easily wins the presidency, becoming the country's first woman occupant of the Oval Office.

What follows her assumption of the position astounds the world, shocks the nation and results in a startling and different way of American Life.

About the Author

The third son of a career army officer, James E. Couch was educated in four different states and graduated from the U.S. military dependent?s high school in Bremerhaven, Germany.

After college he served as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Army in Tokyo, Japan. Following receipt of a master's degree, he became a State Department Foreign Service officer and served in Japan and Laos before two years of intensive study at the State Department's Japan Language and Area Training school in Tokyo.

He resigned from the Foreign Service and worked as an editor on The Japan Times in Tokyo for three years.

Following that, Couch became a professor in his native state of Florida, teaching political science, international relations and journalism. He founded the mass communications program at Florida International University in Miami, a large member of the Florida state university system, from which he retired in 1993.