Jerico Matias Cruz, the author and speaker of the book of poems entitled "On Politics of 21st Century First Edition," writes about the exciting and exhilarating highlights and extraordinary phenomenon of American Politics from circa 2000 to 2025. The author and speaker writes poetic verses of each phenomenal event, utilizing his personal, professional and academic background knowledge in military, economics, history, international relations, science, technology, and other theories of knowledge or academic disciplines.

The author and speaker recognizes the importance of freedom of expression as a way to propel human innovation for creative thinkers, writers, innovators, scientists, researchers, recording artists, screenwriters, filmmakers, software engineers, and other individuals who intend to propel the future of human innovations in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM).

Part I: Circa 2000 - 2005, the author and speaker begins with introduction of poetic verses about the author and speaker's arrival at the Chicago O'Hare International Airport Terminal 5 and then follows with highlights of American Politics, involving American culture, public education, 9/11/2001, inclusion and diversity, political populism, and popular sports.

Part II: Circa 2006 - 2010, the author and speaker introduces with poetic verses of a rising non-white politician in American Politics and then follows with American domestic economy, central bank's monetary policies, mortgage crisis, banking crisis, financial crisis between 2007 and 2009, federal government's fiscal policy, and lastly economic cycles.

Part III: Circa 2011 - 2015, the author and speaker initiates with poetic verses of economic recovery and threat of American Politics, follows with economics of war, geopolitical issues, coupling and decoupling between American Politics and China's Rise, influences of Catholicism and foreign policy in American Politics, impacts of American trade pacts in Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean, links between American Politics and continental European economics, and the rise of China's land and water trade pacts and American Politics's geopolitical maneuvering and containment.

Part IV: Circa 2016 - 2020, the author and speaker reintroduces poetic verses with the rise of populism in American Politics, and follows with domestic economic growth, rise of Animal Spirits of American Politics, causes and effects of chaotic events of the impeachment tragedy of American Politics, rise of Covid-19 pandemic, quagmire of American Politics to fight Covid-19 pandemic, and the race of developing Covid-19 vaccines.

Part V: Circa 2021 - 2025, the author and speaker shares poetics verses with mass production of Covid-19 vaccines, spreads of Covid-19 variants, issues of January 6, 2021 insurrection in American Politics, causes and effects of rising energy and food prices, reintroduction of economic cycles, responses of American central bank's unconventional monetary policies, effects of American foreign policy agendas and new era of NATO Alliance, China's Rise and American Politics's technological decoupling, and Russia's Space Race 2.0.