Home from the war, welcomed by his rural community, Cyrus marries the beautiful Jax, a professor of music and a talented artist in her own right. Returning to college to become a professor of philosophy, over the next thirty years he watches America descend into the Age of Violence which leads him to conclude after years of research that the American political process is broken. Why and how it broke, and the process of fixing it becomes​ the basis for three lectures which propel Cyrus and The Front into national prominence. The lectures and the research presented are the foundation of Between the Walls of Time and the beginning of the growth of The Front into a third political party.