Imagine history as a series of trap doors and funhouse mirrors, where Nancy Drew and the Bobbsey Twins meet the Chicago 7 and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, where Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas are in the courtroom with Scrooge McDuck. This is the brilliantly bizarre world of Mel Freilichers American Cream, a fictional realm of historical discourses punctuated by naughty erotic encounters. What would Little House on the Prairie look like if it were written by Big Bill Haywood? Do sex and death go together like crime and meth? Are all mainstream political agendas delusional and deadly?. . . Stephen-Paul Martin, author of The Ace of Lightning and Changing the Subject