Day Keene 25 min read

A Founding Father wakes naked in a cave, robbed, two centuries out of his own 1789.

Ephraim Hale, freshly elected to the first Congress, comes to with a clear head and no clothes, clutching only a letter from the Postmaster General, and a growing suspicion that something has gone very wrong with the year. Day Keene mines the collision of Revolutionary-era dignity and a baffling new world for brisk comedy, letting his flustered statesman narrate his own disorientation. Read it for a jaunty time-slip romp that has fun with American history from the inside out.

In its time

Published in 1950, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

25 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Harold W. McCauley