[1] Rich's first book, Christian Nation, is a work of dystopian political fiction arising from the counterfactual of a McCain/Palin victory in 2008 followed soon after by John McCain's sudden death and Sarah Palin's ascension to the presidency.
[3] In Getting to Green, a non-fiction book published by W. W. Norton in April 2016,[4] Rich argues that the American environmental movement has lost its way and explains how it can get back on track.
After graduating from Princeton, he studied moral philosophy at King's College, Cambridge as a Keasbey Scholar and then received his Juris Doctor degree at the University of Virginia School of Law.
[6] Rich has stated that his writing, both fiction and non-fiction, aims to probe contemporary political and moral issues from a perspective that is independent, non-partisan, and pragmatic.
[11] Rich has served on many not-for-profit boards, mostly of organizations working in the fields of environment, land conservation, and parks.