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Max Willi Fischer
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Born in Akron, Ohio into an immigrant family seeking new opportunity in America after World War II, Max Willi Fischer was raised in a village named after an exotic North African seaport—Mogadore, Ohio. With such a background, little wonder Max grew up with an inborn curiosity about history.
Based upon his four decades as a classroom teacher, he believes history must be story well told. His goal in writing historical fiction is to engage readers with an exciting, yet accurate, view of our nation’s past. While his characters are for the most part fictitious, his settings are based on the reality of the era in which he writes, immersing readers in a yesterday of long ago.
Along with writing, Max volunteers in several organizations dedicated to eliminating food insecurity in his community. He also enjoys nature hikes with his dog, Kole, and occasional home handyman projects. Retired, Max lives with his wife and trusted four-legged friends Kole, Della, Leo, Bunnie, Lucy, and Izzy.
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My goal is to engage my reader within eras of America's past in order tow be able to see how they rhyme with its present.
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Book 1:
Working the Angles
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Summary
1937 . . . Akron, Ohio, known by some G-men as the toughest town in the nation, is a noxious, dirty city in a perpetual snow globe of soot and the stink of burning tires. Yet, that smell means money, and eighteen-year-old Deet Jenkins has just graduated to his second station in life—rubber worker in one of Akron’s numerous tire-producing factories. From his Cleveland relatives, who are sympathetic to Adolph Hitler’s fascism to rumors of communists within his tire-building plant, democracy is on trial, and he’s surrounded by more political intrigue than he could ever imagine. He must learn to navigate a course to protect his family and his girlfriend. When everything seems to be falling apart, the F.B.I. bursts into his life and throws him a curveball. He does everything he can to keep from striking out.
Book 2:
Hobbadehoy Rising
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In 1854, orphaned, seventeen-year-old Pencil mastered survival in the Five Points of Lower Manhattan. As a lieutenant of a pack of “street rats”, he chafes under the control of adult scoundrels, who call him a “hobbadehoy”—someone no longer a boy, yet not a man. Trust is a luxury he doesn’t possess. Through a treacherous turn of events, he’s shipped off to Ohio where he must adjust while relying on his street smarts to overcome bias and a domineering guardian. Living in a divided society, he grapples with the right and wrong of issues far removed from his pickpocket touches back in New York City. He learns that trust is an invisible track on which he has to discern where the good or bad lies within each person he meets.
Book 3:
American Brush-Off
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The forgotten internment of World War II . . . It’s 1942, and seventeen-year-old Lud Mueller is an All-American boy. He’s got it all—looks, athletic ability, popularity and the sweetest girl between Chicago and New York. Now, the only country he’s ever known has a plan to tear his life to pieces without giving him a fighting chance. The clouds of fear have gathered into the storms of bigotry throughout the United States. Innuendo has replaced due process.
Labeled a “dangerous enemy alien” in his hometown, Lud Mueller learns his deliverance depends upon his wit trumping his brawn. Interned in the Texas desert, he and his family become pawns in a secret World War II strategy. This isn’t what he expected for his senior year of high school.
While a few Nazi wannabes try to make life miserable for him and his family, Lud finds romance in the Texas heat only for it to be scorched by the government.
When the war ends, Lud has changed, but the government’s wishes for him have not.
The separation of families by our government is not a new concept. American Brush-Off is based upon the internment of thousands of legal German aliens and German Americans during World War II.
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