Hometown was a small rural ‘Upstate’ New York town, population about 3,000 to 4,000 people, 12,000 to 15,000 milk cows, and three creameries . The author, Gil Herkimer, like this book’s leading character, Bill Stevens, was born in the Hometown area composed of at least five or six upstate New York villages and towns , and lived there all of his early life there, except for the four years which he, too, had spent in the U. S. Navy during World War II. The author’s main purpose for writing this book is to encourage readers to help in the development of a strong two-party political system in areas where’s only a one-party rule as it was in Hometown during the early 1960's.