An economist and reality TV star mounts an improbable independent run for the White House after calling for term limits for all members of Congress.
He has no money. He's never held elected office and he'll turn 35 just days before the 2008 election. No one knows him. He's not a member of either party, and he knows no independent candidate has ever come close to contending for the White House. Despite this, he knows he must run.
He knows the country’s chronic overspending will eventually result in a major economic catastrophe. And he knows he can change it, must change it, by forcing career politicians out of office and replacing them with people who are more concerned with doing what’s best for the country than getting reelected.
Run, which is narrated through a series of third-person media accounts, tells the incredible story of Noa Kalakaua's unlikely independent run for the White House. A must read for anyone who cares about the direction our country is headed, the book documents how Kalakaua, a Hawaiian economist from the University of Chicago, uses the American people's fascination with celebrity and an unlikely reality TV win to mount a brilliant low budget campaign, to reinvent democracy, to inspire the American people to think, and to attempt to save a nation careening toward disaster.