Everyman is an Island Author:Wesley E. Hall Everyman Is an Island is an old English professor s notebook and journal, left over from his days at Hammond State University in Climax Springs, Mississippi. After writing seventeen books about WWII and the Pacific War, the Old Coast Guard of the late Sixties, Ozarks hillbillies in Christian County, Missouri, latter day hippies and trailerhouse ... more »people during Women s Lib, AIDS, and drugs (and one about the first woman in the Oval Office), he finally lifted his middle finger to the tightbutts of the world and put together a collection of funny-as-hell short stories and curiosities. One theme in the book is The White Man in Today s America, and closely related to that Women s Conquest Over Man. On the one hand, in his gutsy essay POW, he wants to fight back, re-conquer the world of the dominant male through organization and, if necessary, guerrilla fighting. But eventually it becomes quite clear that the race has been run and the fight has been fought; and, while the male has softened and broadened in the butt, the female has toughened and earned the right to run the show. In his Madam President (published in 2000 by iUniverse s Writer s Club Press), he spelled out in hilarious detail how the Woman had done it; and his prediction in that 423-page novel was that the first woman would move into the Oval Office as Captain of the U. S. Ship of State in 2020. Although the title Everyman Is and Island is a reversal of the age-old Christian belief that no man is an island (cf. Seventeenth Century metaphysical poet John Donne s poem by that title), there is this ray of hope about being marooned on Island Earth: Since there are some things our creator did not see fit to let us comprehend, just maybe...there is a place called Heaven and a city paved with gold .« less