Beulah author releases second historical novel

Brad McKim’s second historical novel, A Presidents Story Too: Another Novel of Power and Personality, delves into the lives of the fourteen men who followed Lincoln as Chief Executive.

McKim says, “I came to appreciate their strengths, their weaknesses, their victories, their potential, their passions and their tragedies. Most of all, I am fascinated by their humanity.”

The novel spans the tense aftermath of the Civil War, as nineteenth-century presidents labor to secure peace amid competing calls for forgiveness and retribution, to the first glimpses of modern America as the early twentieth-century Presidents preside over a country that has not only survived a calamitous Civil War over the meaning of freedom, but becomes critical to the freedom of other countries.

As in his first book, McKim distills key moments in each president’s life that ultimately led them to the White House, including the role other and future presidents played in that journey.

The goal, he says, is for the reader to gain perspective about our modern politics and, in reality, how little has changed.

A Presidents Story Too is available through Amazon and Barnes and Noble among other online outlets.

McKim practiced law for 30 years while living in Colorado, Texas, Alaska and London. His lifelong enthusiasm for Presidential history led him to write historical novels.

His travels have taken him to all 50 states as well as over 75 countries. He lives in near Beulah, Wyoming with his first passion, his wife Kay.