A Fool's Lexicon is a memoir of David Oldfield's adventures as a itinerant fool wandering through the fringes and corporate centers of modern America. Using odd, ancient, and forgotten words as his compass, the Lexicon is a rumination on the health and dis-ease of a country and its people struggling to remember its purpose, and live out its destiny in the swirl of creative and destructive forces that give our moment in history its unique identity. It was written as a gift to his sons.