All the Queen's Horses and All the Queen's Men

Book excerpt: Follow Summer Lambert as megastore money paves the way to the top of the equestrian sport of competition show riding for her, and her daughter, Berkeley. With her plutocrat father-in-law, Rolf Lambert, as her money and power coach, and self-serving Denise as her trainer, Summer clears the path to the top of riding for herself and her daughter by eliminating any competition from the middle class riders. But without recognizing the essential worth of excellence, the vital strengthening effect of competition, and the fundamental interdependence of all classes in our society, has Summer really won? Or has Summer simply revealed the epidemic of lies and spin in our society, driven by the covert, greedy actions of the plutocrats? Has she simply exposed the existence of a new form of royal oppression in America; an ideology that is eliminating the American Dream and turning America into a two-tiered society of an upper royal class and a lower service class, rather than one with a strong, producer middle class?