A Lemonade Sunset is a story of a promising relationship that becomes hopelessly intertwined with a notorious time in U.S. political history.
The protagonist, John Beaumont, is a recent high school graduate living in sunny Santa Clara, California, in 1972. John is calm, affable, and trustworthy. Politically, John believes the ongoing Vietnam War is founded on government lies. This leads him to volunteer for the presidential campaign of Senator George McGovern, who is against the war. Out on the campaign trail, John meets Corrine Stanley. Corrine is a beautiful, intelligent, well-to-do girl John had known from afar in high school. Corrine is campaigning for the re-election of President Richard Nixon.
A lemonade stand is the setting for a chance meeting between the two and the beginning of a relationship that would define a lifetime. By the end of their first conversation, John not only begins to have feelings for Corrine, but senses something traumatic about her. He comes to suspect it has to do with Corrine's internship earlier that summer for the Republican National Committee, and her stay at the Watergate Hotel. The two quickly fall in love, but Corrine is secretive about what troubles her, causing strain in their relationship.
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Jeffrey J. Volle is an independent scholar and the author of The Political Legacies of Barry Goldwater and George McGovern: Shifting Party Paradigms (2010), Clinton/Gore: Victory from a Shadow Box (2012), Twenty-Five Years of GOP Presidential Nominations: Threading the Needle (2014), and Donald Trump and the Know-Nothing Movement (2018). His most recent book Presidential Politics after Woodstock: Exit Right to Hurd Road was published October 2020.Jeffrey holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Cleveland State University and a Master of Arts in Political Science from The University of Akron. He also holds a Master of Business Administration from Baldwin Wallace University.