I hope to complete the book in the next year and am currently seeking a publisher.
The book is tentatively titled Red, White, and Green.
I have posted a few brief excerpts from the research and preliminary writing I have done on the book. These particular sections all have to do with my more interesting ancestors, and are actually based on a project I did on my Family History while at St. Joe's.
These relatives include:
Thomas Fitzsimmons (sometimes spelled Fitzsimons), who left Ireland to come to the United States and who was a signer of the United States Constitution and who was also an early American industrialist and the father of the policy of protection to American industries;
George G. Meade, who was one of the most successful of the Civil War's Union generals and led the Union to victory at Gettysburg; and
Bryon Fitzsimmons, a forerunner of "muckraking journalism" from the early 1930's who helped expose corruption and civil injustice before dieing mysteriously while conducting a "secret" investigation of the country's mental asylums.
Click on the links to the left to read more about these famous ancestors I have included in my book.