It's the early 1960s and boy wonder Max Cooper, the only son of a single mother and with only his high school diploma to recommend him, is starting a revolution in labor management systems. A revolution that will take him all the way to the White House–and back. Along the way, exciting and dangerous encounters with a sexy, chain-smoking movie actress, a crooked but charismatic labor boss, a golf-crazy Harvard economics professor, the FBI and the President himself  fuel a growing passion for justice and democracy—and for the three women he loves.