Charles Reich

The New Man Charles Reich

The New Man offers colorful characters manipulating each other and the process for choosing a new superintendent of schools in an affluent eastern suburb. The action includes a student with a gun, controversy over a female rock group calling themselves "The Fallopians," conflict over the octopus of special education, and charges by powerful parents that a teacher abused their child. The climax provides a surprising choice of candidate in the search for - the new man.