Deluders of the People

Deluders of the People is a satirical, open-source book by Martin Marprelate. It stages an inaugural convention of America’s past and present, where figures such as Johnny Carson, Washington Irving, John Rodgers, John Knox, and the Headless Horseman expose the contradictions of democracy, religion, commerce, and law. Blending history and performance, the work asks what happens when a republic built on liberty and equality is sold to corporate power and authoritarian control. Written for readers disillusioned with American exceptionalism, it is both a literary experiment and a political critique, published under a public-domain license to ensure wide accessibility through open repositories such as Zenodo and Archive.org.