Ma Windsor

"This is a book about a tart-tongued Wisconsin widow whom a committee of wealthy reformers decides to draft as the Democratic nominee for President (it could be in 1984). She reluctantly consents, they engineer her nomination, and she campaigns from small city to small city, talking with ordinary citizens about her homespun Nine Points plan to overhaul the federal government. Her campaign catches the public imagination, she wins in a landslide, and in January takes the oath in a spartan inauguration. Entrenched interests launch fierce opposition as Ma attempts to balance the federal budget ... reduce the national debt ... reshape the federal income tax ... impose a ceiling on interest rates ... eliminate federal subsidies to private industry and growers ... and cut millions of well-off retirees from the Social Security rolls. An even greater storm rises as Ma proposes to overturn the archaic Pentagon establishment ... withdraw U.S. troops from overseas ... shrink the nation's stockpile of nuclear warheads by 90 percent ... and adopt a foreign policy based on defense of the Western Hemisphere."--The author's promotional letter.