Who's the most serious thinker on your gift list? The one who loves to wrestle with the most important issues of our time? The one who's not afraid of an intellectual challenge, or struggling to make the world a better place?

Charles D. Hayes' groundbreaking new book, Beyond the American Dream, challenges readers' assumptions on almost every page. The book begins with an examination of trends in the last 200 years of American history, ends with a clarion call to make every life meaningful, every day, and in between, suggests dramatic alternatives to the present materialist culture: alternatives that could

• eliminate poverty, world hunger, war, the welfare system, and environmental pollution

• reinvent education, business, and politics along much more life-affirming directions

• awaken readers to the glories of 3000 years of intellectual philosophy and emotional intelligence.

A tall order for a book by an unknown author, from an obscure press in the Alaska woods. Yet, this book promises to be as important as Lasch's Culture of Narcissism or Naisbitt's Megatrends -- one that every thinking person in America will want to read. Hayes' work has been praised by such luminaries as Philip Slater (author, The Pursuit of Loneliness), Barbara Ehrenreich (author, Blood Rites), James R. Fisher, Jr. (author, Six Silent Killers: Management's Greatest Challenge), Jack Weatherford (author, The History of Money).

In nominating Beyond the American Dream as one of the 10 most important books of 1998, Management General called it "an indescribably great book!" Bloomsbury Review declared it a "fine, eclectic discourse on the consciously created life," and Midwest Book Review observed that Beyond the American Dream "outlines an essential strategy for living a more satisfying life by achieving a better understanding of the world around us." Beyond the American Dream is not a quick and easy read. Rather, it's a probing, intense examination of the entire American society: race relations and affirmative action (Hayes is a strong proponent), environmental issues, and New Age fallacies among others. It's a book that will be talked about for years to come.

Beyond the American Dream: Lifelong Learning and the Search for Meaning in a Postmodern World, ISBN: 0-9621979-2-0, $26.95, is available from Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and Borders.com, or from Autodidactic Press at autodidactic.com. Journalists: to get your review copy, or to arrange an interview with Hayes, please contact Autodidactic Press at 907-376-2932 or by e-mail at autpress@alaska.net.

For more information, contact:

Nancy Frey
Autodidactic Press
907-376-2932
autpress@alaska.net
http://www.autodidactic.com