What if the South had won the Civil War? What if the North had been reduced to an impoverished, unreconstructed wasteland called the Industrial Zone?Set in a very near future that might have been, this provocative, sophisticated thriller creates an America where "separate but equal" is the bedrock of both law and society. The lily-white Senate and the all-black House may argue, but there's one issue on which everyone can agree: to love someone of the opposite race is to court disaster - and to act on that love is to declare yourself a noncitizen, unworthy of the land of your birth.But as easygoing President Spencer Jefferson Lee, scion of the Confederacy's two most famous families, and his distinguished black vice president are about to learn, passion is more powerful than policy, and nothing is ever as simple as black or white. Read Less