"Poor Richard's Lament: A Most Timely Tale" with author Tom Fitzgerald

What if Ben Franklin came back? What if everything depended on it? One of our founding fathers is put on trial in a celestial court and then granted his wish to come back to life in present day America. The stakes are high for our culture.

Interwoven into the main story is a second, beginning in the red-carpeted parlors of the West Wing and ending in the blood-stained streets of West Philadelphia. Eventually, the parallel stories collide, like massive tectonic plates, in a stunning series of shocks and aftershocks.

Following in the traditions of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life, with intimations of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Poor Richard’s Lament, nine years in the making, is an intricately woven, ultimately uplifting tale of revelation and redemption.