A Book Review: "Tribes of Eden" by William Thomas

In the book Tribes of Eden by William Thomas, the world goes to hell in a handbasket enforced and advanced by the federal government and their incessant abuse of power. Dr. William Thomas, a bestselling non-fiction author (What are Old People For? How Elders Will Save the World, published by Vanderwyk & Burnham, 2004) and many others. This is his first novel (published in 2012), but Mr. Thomas proves that sometimes, if not usually, art is more to the point, and even truer than non-fiction. And certainly more powerful and honest because it says what can’t be said or even always proven or even implied as non-fiction.

In the book Tribes of Eden by William Thomas, the world goes to hell in a handbasket enforced and advanced by the federal government and their incessant abuse of power. Dr. William Thomas, a bestselling non-fiction author (What are Old People For? How Elders Will Save the World, published by Vanderwyk & Burnham, 2004) and many others. This is his first novel (published in 2012), but Mr. Thomas proves that sometimes, if not usually, art is more to the point, and even truer than non-fiction. And certainly more powerful and honest because it says what can’t be said or even always proven or even implied as non-fiction.

“Haudenosaunee” or the people of the long house) offered, which was so much richer than suburbs or other estranged housing, where divide and conquer, especially if you have a computer is too easy. In the story, typical political ladder climbing at city councils and counties around the states doesn’t work because everyone is beholden to “the power”. Tribes recognizes that we are in this together and here for each other at the same time and it is probably only together that they survived, indeed thrived.

Book Review by Chuck Durrett

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