DREW ROSSETTI (D. J. A. Rosete)'s "CIRCLE" is largely a family history and autobiography, of a person who spent his formative years in Seattle during the last several decades of the 20th century, a non-fiction work with some fictional devices melted into the general framework of the book. There is much conflict in Mr. Rosete-and it has to be resolved!-in his identity, with what he believes in, whom he truly loves: much of it stems from the discords in his upbringing, which is in fact a very complicated if not highly convoluted one, and some of it is also in trying to be something in the society which he is a part of, and the friction and powers which similarly try to curb his affections, friendships and exceedingly high ambitions. By geographic placement, luck, the development of life over time, fate, chance and will--more specifically, the Will to Power!!--he has run into actually numerous figures of noteworthiness in his years, now that he is past forty, from people in several governments and government administrative entities throughout the globe, especially that of the United States, with incidents involving the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and similarly also including numbers of individuals within the Military-Industrial Complex, to encounters, accidental sometimes and while at other exchanges those clearly explicitly made by intention, with JFK, Jr., Bill Gates and Microsoft Corp., Andrew Luck, to many more highly prominent in various spheres of well-being, including the President of the United States himself. The engagement between Science and Religion, the struggle in his identity as a person growing up because of his multiracial, interracial and émigré background, the strain to overcome the bounds of his sense of self, as well as that of his past-and to escape it all-these and many more things, such as topics in Music, Sports, Politics and Philosophy, can be found and are explored in the volume. We will not only run into famous, popular individuals, including powerful politicians, entertainment industry figures, sports stars and broadcast newscasters, but also many, many others, such as most of his closer relatives, like Brian, Allen, Sven and Sonia, who, just through the mere stroke of being the same age as him, or by belonging to analogous tracks, or having parallel interests to just coexisting in similar parts of the country as him, he has come across, characters including the likes of Ron, Tae, May, Tia, Aradhna, Sasha, Andrea, Cathy, Frank, Jackie, Lisa and others. It has been quite a journey, and concludes with the close to true story of his somewhat fictional son, who has achieved a professorship at Harvard University, being an Astronomy Professor, and the creation of a new system of time, weights and measures, including arc and angle, all centered on the Circle and Base-10, which Mr. Rosete believes is in many ways superior to and should take over the present Metric System as the worldwide standard.
About the Author: DREW ROSSETTI (D. J. A. ROSETE, JR.), AMERICAN WRITER D. J. Rosete (pronounced "Rossetti"), American writer and historian, educated at Princeton University, Georgetown University and The University of Oregon, erstwhile of The University of Mumbai and West Virginia University. Mr. Rosete spends part of his time in Los Angeles, where he grew up, and can similarly be seen perusing the streets of San Francisco, Paris (Fr.), The Chicagoland Area, Portland (OR), Hong Kong, Tokyo, Boston/Harvard, London (UK), Vancouver (BC) and New York City. In his works are the multifarious influences of History, Politics, Astronomy and American cultures and civilizations which form his background. "CIRCLE" is his first book, a work largely of family history & autobiography, included in which is the new system of time, weights & measures (with angle and arc). Like the American historian David McCullough, he keeps a list of literary projects which have the possibility of being completed (notice also the various genres he write in): among them are a fiction novel, "Stories from the Pacific West," based on actual events, people & sites on the U.S. West Coast, replete with numerous modern musical groups, having as an underlying basis the Jungian Archetypes in the Collective Unconscious--within which is The Archetype of the Hero, which George Lucas uses extensively in the plot-lines to his "Star Wars" movies--& a history book from about the beginnings of Jack Kennedy's administration to Richard Nixon's demise, of "The New Frontier to Watergate," from between 1960-1974, both of which won't be completed for some time; there are also some movie screenplays he has in mind, good ones which he thinks many will enjoy, but these are still in a very early stage of composition. He is a big admirer of David McCullough, Henry Adams, Miguel de Cervantes, Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Morris & Louis Menand, and also enjoys the literature of Henry James, John Updike, Ernest Samuels & Frank McCourt; of all these writers, Mr. Rosete is currently most interested in Henry Adams-whom Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., called "our finest historian"-and his life and work, with his intimate insight into the social, political and intellectual elite of the American society of his era; as well as the true nature of man and our progression as a humanity in time. A devoted music fan since he was a little child, Mr. Rosete closely follows this discipline, from which something new always develops.