The Last Election

About the Book

Americans held their Last Election in 1860 after seventy-one years as one nation state. Secession and separation of two incompatible Ways of Life followed. A great civil war erupted. We are headed again to a Last Election, secession, and separation of two incompatible Ways of Life. The author examines in plain common sense terms the principal factors at work and the hopeless division among our people, comparing current times to the decade of the 1850s, and the fraying of our common thread. Mr. Reynolds concludes with an appeal for Americans to consider a pathway along which different cultures and Ways of Life may walk compatibly on this great continent.

About the Author

Mr. Reynolds has been engaged as an entrepreneur chief executive of a privately held business for over thirty years, following two successful careers in the practice of law and as an officer in operations and finance of an NYSE listed corporation. Throughout his adult life, he has served on numerous public, private, educational, philanthropic, and industry boards and has lived in New England, the Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Reynolds was raised in a western suburb of Chicago, attended public schools, and is an Eagle Scout. He earned his BA in economics from Denison University and his JD from the University of Chicago Law School. He now makes his home in the upper Midwest.