A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid: A Novel

In A History of the African-American People [Proposed], Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Percival Everett (James) and James Kincaid present a fictitious chronicle of former South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond’s desire to pen a history of African Americans—his and his aides’ belief being that he had done as much, or more, than any American to shape that history. An epistolary novel, A History follows the letters of loose-cannon congressional office workers, insane interns at a large New York publishing house, and disturbed publishing executives, along with homicidal rival editors and kindly family friends. Strom Thurmond appears charming and open, mad and sure of his place in American history.