To the Mountains and Back:Outgoing Email 1998-99: Reflections on Politics and the US Economy in a year leading up to the Millennium

This book is part of a diary which traces the author's reflections and observations about politics, macroeconomics, war and peace during and between skiing trips in northern New England and then back to his semi urban working existence in Somerville, Massachusetts, a small city adjoining Boston and Cambridge. Employed in a fortune 500 corporation, he applies home schooled social science insights in an effort to understand why things are as they are and how they might change for the better. He attempts to get inside the heads of his coworkers as well into the heads of more public political actors in order to give the reader a sort of inside out look at the thinking and implicit thinking that may well be driving the decisions that American society makes. Topics addressed include but are not limited to the usual suspects: the effects of addiction to television and oil consumption, the effects of the oil lobby on the TV news business, an attempt to reframe the way Democrats frame the problem of disparate racial accomplishments in such a way as to allow that party to regain some or all of the influence it has lost as a result, it is alleged, of the way these disparities are currently framed. The writer has a blog on the Internet. The blog is atdefoggingthedata.blogstream.com.

Not that much is known about Andreas Daniel Fogg except that he apparently received an excellent home school education. He is a writer who lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. In addition to home schooling with his professor father, and in college and graduate school he concentrated on the social sciences and philosophy, economics, psychiatric theories and some literature. He is rumored to have done, in his youth, participant observation research in a major Massachusetts psychiatric hospital as an inpatient. May well have done all of this writing in an attempt to prove that he is in fact sane. For most of his adult working life he did blue collar warehouse sorts of work.