How America manufactured a monster, and the people who refused to become it.
Some stories explain how things fell apart. This one names how a monster gets made, one decision at a time, and follows the people who stood inside that machine and would not let it turn them into something they were not.
Volume One opens a trilogy about what happens when a country needs a monster badly enough to build one. It follows the machinery of manufactured fear, decision by decision, and the people who stood inside it without letting it define them.
The bogeyman was never found. He was built. This book shows you the blueprints.
Written plainly, without academic fog. History told the way it happened, for readers who want the truth to land, not float.
Volume Two arrives next. Follow on Amazon to be notified the day it drops.
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William Rochelle is an author, operations executive, and host of YOU BE YOU LIVE. He spent 25 years scaling businesses from $0 to $250M, was featured in Forbes in May 2006, and led teams of more than 400 people across 3 continents. The Bogeyman Was Built is Volume One of his trilogy.
Manufactured fear in American history. Leadership after survival. Writing history plainly. Building an author platform after a 25-year operations career. Healing after truth.
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