He was a survivor - a wanderer who traded tales
for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating
war. Fate touches him one chill winter’s
day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself
from the cold. The old, worn, uniform
still has power as a symbol of hope. With
it he begins to weave his greatest tale - that he is a mail carrier and a
federal inspector for the "Restored United States of America," a
nation on the road to recovery. This is
the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth; the
dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through
the power of a dream which gives hope to people who are threatened by a
murderous, neo-feudalist militia.
Adapted into a film starring Kevin Costner and Will Patton in 1997.