The New President: A Power Struggle

By Dustin Swanger

Power is rarely seized. More often, it is inherited-quietly, suddenly, and without preparation.

The New President follows a man who did not seek the presidency in a time of crisis, yet finds himself burdened with decisions that no democratic system was designed to make openly. Behind closed doors, he learns that the country he now leads is protected not only by laws and institutions, but by secrets so profound they challenge the meaning of consent, accountability, and democracy itself.

This is not a novel about partisan politics. It is a novel about power-how it is exercised, concealed, rationalized, and lived with. It asks what happens when moral responsibility collides with institutional inertia, and when leadership becomes an act of solitary judgment rather than collective will.

Written by someone who has spent a career inside complex institutions, The New President is grounded not in spectacle, but in realism: conversations in rooms where history bends, decisions made without applause, and the private cost of public duty.

This book is for readers who believe fiction can still do serious work-who are interested not only in what leaders decide, but what it costs them to decide at all.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BF3GQ6T3
• ISBN13: 9798353448143
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"