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What do you get when you combine a liberal version of George Will with a Jewish version of George Carlin? The United States of Who? – Politics, Religion & Other Funny Stuff in Today’s America.  Roy Klein’s recently completed first book of essays.   More than 100 short, quirky, engaging pieces, organized by category, that hit upon today’s social, political, spiritual and pop-cultural issues.  

Here you’ll find original, fresh, often thought-provoking and always entertaining essays on the following topics:  Politics (the Constitution, the electoral process, the presidency, international affairs); Religion (monotheism, Judaism, Christianity, ecumenicalism); Language; Television; Health & Wellness; Fun & Games; and Miscellany.  

The essays cover everything from “A” (attorney advertising, in a piece entitled “Truth in Lawyering”) to “Z” (zoologically-based idioms, in a piece entitled “It’s a Jungle Out There”), including all 24 fascinating letters in-between.  Some are sophomorically silly.  Some are soberly serious.  Others can best be described with adverbs and adjectives that don’t start with “s.”  How’s that for variety?  Just open the book and Essay-surf to your heart’s delight.

Roy is always writing new essays.  In fact, Roy can write a 500 word essay on just about anything.  So email your suggestions to Writeon@RoyKlein.com. Then check back and click on Essay Du Jour to see whether your topic has come to life. (Sorry, students, but Roy’s pieces are for entertainment purposes only; don’t even think about using or plagiarizing one for a school paper).

Neither man nor woman lives by essays alone.  Fortunately, our Liberal George Will-Jewish George Carlin hybrid doesn’t either.  So, he decided to tackle the American legal and judicial systems.  The result  is The Little Law Book (Or Almost Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The American Legal System But Were Too Bored To Try To Find Out).

The book explains substantive law, procedure, and the workings of the American legal and judicial systems in an irreverent, humorous (sometimes downright silly) and engagingly readable way.  No one has ever looked at our legal system quite like this before.  

Like The United States of Who?, The Little Law Book is also an idea whose time has come.  After all, Americans are fascinated by the law, which pervades every aspect of our society. To many of us, though, the law remains a mystery – shrouded in arcane procedures and rituals; spoken in some incomprehensible foreign language.  There’s a lot of law out there and much of it is dry, dense and boring.  So, despite our fascination with it, we simply can’t bring ourselves to take the time to really learn and understand it.
           
The Little Law Book changes all that.  Now, everyone can learn the rudiments of our law, legal system and judicial system while being entertained at the same time. 

Roy’s also 100 pages into a novel entitled The Ditch Dwellers.  It’s about coming of age (learning), desire (burning), rejection (spurning), unrequited love (yearning), a bizarre fantasy involving a ritualized conversion ceremony (the “turning”) and all kinds of other themes that can’t be described with rhyming gerunds.

For excerpts from these three books, simply click on the book icons above.  Then check back regularly, as the excerpts will be changing.  And feel free to post your comments by clicking on Everyone’s a Critic.