PITTSFORD, N.Y., Feb. 16, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Author Ellen Hadley wants to make the world a better place, and she knows how. Her new book, One Dear Land (now available through 1stBooks), mixes nonfiction and fiction to lead people to a better world.
One Dear Land begins with an intellectual, nonfiction dissertation that combines and refines religious, economic and social concepts. In this first part, Hadley exhibits how people can combine all of these concepts, such as a guaranteed basic income, a national sales tax rather than income tax and a moral code. Using religion, econ omics and sociology, Hadley combines concepts based on people's self-interests, love of God and love of community to show how the world is a step away from becoming a more peaceful and equally contented place to live.
The second part of One Dear Land is a fictional representation and argument of these concepts. She takes her readers to the upper echelon of innovative thinking: the college campus. In this novel, John Hartwell meets his future wife, Hope, in the history class they share. Their professor, Randall Kirk, introduces John to politics, where he learns to define and redefine his political concepts throughout the different offices he holds. With these new ideas regarding politics and economics, John tries to convince Hope, who endeavors to share her religious convictions with him. Together, they learn to make their own lives better, which, in turn, influences the community, the state and so on.
One Dear Land is a road to the future. It introduces concepts and ideas that seldom are placed together, and Hadley hopes it will influence one reader, then another and another until it changes the whole world over.
Hadley, who grew up in the Great Depression, learned these concepts early. Her years of worries concerning money, war and religion cause her to believe that "there must be a better way." After much research and analyzing her personal experiences, she laid down her ideas in One Dear Land, her first book, in the hopes it will help the world become a better place, free of war and poverty.
"I hope that my book will be read by many and acted upon by those in a position to do so. Believe it or not, 'those in a position to do so,' includes all of us," she says.
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