Description of the book 2006 - The Chautauqua Rising


	2006: The Chautauqua Rising

2006: The Chautauqua Rising is both a murder mystery and political thriller set against the rugged beauty and fiery political past of Western New York. The agents of an ever-intrusive government have quietly altered the American political landscape. Freedoms slip away, unnoticed by an apathetic and neglectful nation. In the tradition of our founding fathers, a disparate group of civil disobedients unites to spark the greatest grassroots insurrection since the Whiskey Rebellion, an event CNN comes to call “The Chautauqua Rising.”

“Cashill’s rebels rise from the western fringe of Upstate New York’s Burned-Over-District, where a century and a half ago ragged prophets and holy fools tramped the land preaching every sort of revolution. His “constitutionalist underground” dream team of Seneca Indians, Amish, hill people, Latin Mass Catholics; a sportswriter, and a beautiful folksinger match wits and muscle with the homicidal careerists who would seize their guns and shut down their homeschools. If this sounds drearily didactic, it isn’t. The novel is fast-paced and genuinely suspenseful. Tinted by local color, animated by righteous (and condign) outrage, 2006: The Chautauqua Rising is a page-turner with its heart in the right place.”

		Bill Kauffman, Chronicles

“2006: The Chautauqua Rising reads like a John Grisham novel, but one that’s more thoughtful, hopeful, and far more prophetic as to what the future holds if we don’t change course. A superior read.”
	Joseph Farah, Publisher World Net Daily


	“2006: The Chautauqua Rising is a gutsy and creative, uncompromising journey into America’s freedom-starved future. Through a time-telescoped perspective, Cashill has cleverly morphed the rubble of Waco and Oklahoma City into this riveting ‘who-done-it’”

Terry Reed, Author Compromised: Clinton Bush and the CIA


	“It’s one part thriller, one part romance, one part futurism…. Readers have compared Cashill’s work to George Orwell and John Grisham. An interesting mix to be sure.”


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