Stanley is your typical American high school student in 2000. He loves video games, has trouble talking to girls and half-heartedly searches for a college. But the attacks of September 11th, 2001 change the course of his life forever. As he tries to understand what happened, he follows his first love, Hope, in joining an extremist group in college. As he rises in the ranks, he begins to question his Hope's motives. Follow Stanley as he tries to escape imprisonment and save America from itself in this satirical novella. AMERICAN INSURGENT is the story of one boy trying to fight for the soul of America, even if America doesn't want to be saved. This 5th anniversary edition of the novella originally published in 2012 features a new forward, a reader-chosen cover and an unpublished alternate ending.