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Robert F. Ely was born in Newark, New Jersey. In the 1970s he worked as a community organizer with nonprofit foundations to set up and organize community-owned and operated co-op food markets in economically depressed neighborhoods in New York City, Jersey City, and Newark. He also coordinated workshops and seminars to educate inner-city youth against drug use and gang violence. A veteran himself, Ely also worked with veterans programs to assist them in finding employment. He currently lives in northwest New Jersey.
Reviewed by Dr. Karen Hutchins Pirnot for Readers' Favorite
If you like political satire and attention to current political issues, you just may like Candidate for President by Robert Ely. Erik Bernhard is the central character. He is a Congressman who is running for President as a third-party candidate. Bernhard is anything but wishy-washy on central issues and he has gathered a fan base that loves him. He draws ridicule and hatred from his enemies whom Bernhard believes to be both ignorant of salient issues and contented sheep who feel a strong sense of entitlement from government. The candidate believes America needs a strong military, feared by the world, as well as spiritual leadership to bring Americans back to a world which is respected and which holds strong moral values. Interwoven in Bernhard's machinations are various world factions from the Middle East who are rooting for the other candidate, a man who seems truly clueless about world affairs and who resorts to allowing the United Nations to police the world at large.
In Candidate for President, readers are exposed to polar opposites of political beliefs. Candidate Bernhard portrays the mass of Americans to be "dumbed-down" individuals who are no longer hardy enough to fight worldwide threats to the principles advocated by our founding fathers. The juxtaposition of nations who want American leadership to fail is, at times, amusing and at other times, alarming. Basically, Bernhard is suggesting the time might be ripe for a benign dictatorship to lead the USA back to a position of being a strong world power. No matter what your political leanings, this book offers much food for social thought.
