Talk radio firebrand Michael Savage argues that a liberal agenda is creeping into American institutions--its schools and churches, its military, and even into family life. He tells why this is harmful and what, from his conservative viewpoint, should be done about it.

Nick adores Trish, but Trish is not the faithful type, and when her old flame Joe shows up, she moves in with him, even though she's expecting Nick's baby. Worse yet, Nick is in New York, Trish in London. Fortunately, Nick has his own girlfriend, Sareen, who consoles him when he longs to be with his new daughter. And when he does visit, Trish sometimes consoles him a little bit, too. Then Nick and Joe realize that Trish is playing them off against each other....

Two newcomers invade the life of Joe Allston, a 64-year-old rancher in California. One is a manipulative hippie who wants to camp on his land--a request Joe grants because his son died three years earlier, an event about which Joe still feels some guilt. The other is a new neighbor, the lovely Marian, who has a tragic secret. Stegner's novel provides his usual searching look at varying attitudes toward nature and human relationships.

To escape his idiosyncratic family, this memoirist enrolled in a Catholic college in Los Angeles in the 1970s, but it wasn't long before he shattered the constraints of this institution by finding employment with an "escort agency." Here he depicts the hustler's life.