Founding Dead: When Democracy dies, the dead rise.
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Book Overview In a fractured America marking the 250th anniversary of its founding, the first Republic trembles on the brink of collapse. The Constitut...
In a fractured America marking the 250th anniversary of its founding, the first Republic trembles on the brink of collapse. The Constitution is under siege. Protesters vanish. Families splinter along ideological fault lines. Truth dissolves into noise. And from the shadows of executive power, a president known only as the Boss governs with the cold certainty of a man who believes democracy is a weakness to be managed rather than defended.
Then the impossible happens.
In Philadelphia-the birthplace of the nation-three of its most consequential architects rise from their graves. Benjamin Franklin. James Madison. Thomas Jefferson. Reanimated, aware, and horrified, they awaken not to the Enlightenment ideals they once debated by candlelight, but to a country drowning in rage, spectacle, and institutional decay.
They are not ghosts. They are not legends.
They are the undead.
Gifted-or cursed-with a strange power hidden in their bite, the founders discover they have returned for a reason. Their resurrection is not simply a macabre twist of fate but an opportunity: to confront the distortions of their own legacy, to witness the consequences of compromises once made, and to challenge a nation that invokes their names while abandoning their principles.
As political violence escalates and the machinery of democracy grinds toward authoritarian rule, the unlikely trio must navigate a modern America they barely recognize-one of twenty-four-hour outrage cycles, digital mobs, weaponized misinformation, and a public so divided it can no longer agree on reality itself.
Yet revolution has evolved.
No muskets. No powdered wigs. No neat lines between patriot and traitor.
Instead, there are moral ambiguities, bitter regrets, and a growing awareness that the republic's survival may depend not on force, but on rekindling civic courage and the lost art of principled disagreement.
Amid the chaos, an unexpected and forbidden love takes root-one that challenges loyalty, mortality, and the very meaning of freedom. In a world where death no longer guarantees silence, what does it mean to live with conviction?
Darkly comic, sharply satirical, and threaded with genuine tragedy, Founding Dead blends political satire, horror, speculative fiction, and romance into a bold reimagining of America's founding myth. It confronts hero worship, questions the durability of democratic institutions, and explores whether a nation built on revolutionary ideals can survive its own mythology.
Can democracy be resurrected?
Or must it fully die before anyone remembers how to fight for it?
Book Details Format: Paperback | Publisher: INDEPENDENT CAT | ISBN: 9798295622
FormatPaperback
ISBN9798295622
EAN9798295622212
PublisherINDEPENDENT CAT
Publication Date2026-03-05
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.58 Pounds
Length9.0 Inches
Width6.0 Inches
Height0.44 Inches
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