Ronald Glasser, the author of the acclaimed 365 Days, said of the first book in Dean Velvel's quartet (Misfits in America) that it sets the stage for what went wrong at the end of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st. Trail of Tears continues setting this stage by describing the kinds of behavior that a few years later culminated in massive fraud and dishonesty in the business, professional, and political worlds in the last years of the Clinton administration and the first years of the Bush II administration.