AUTHOR BIO
Professional Background
Prior to retiring from the practice of law in 2024, Patrick Amoresano was Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney for 30 consecutive years, a designation held by only 2% of attorneys licensed in New Jersey. His practice was primarily devoted to the prosecution of medical malpractice claims on behalf of severely injured patients and their surviving family members.
Published Books
In 2019, Pat self-published his first two books under the pen name Patrick Xavier: From Which We Stem, a legal-medical thriller about illicit embryonic stem-cell harvesting by China and Big Pharma; and We Were the Fighting Irish, a non-fiction work focused largely on Notre Dame University’s religious and political history in the realms of slavery, the Civil War, the culture war, contraception, and abortion.
Most recently in May of 2025, Pat self-published a second non-fiction work as Patrick Amoresano: The Forgotten Father of Notre Dame Football, a biography about an Irish immigrant orphan of the Potato Famine, along with other noteworthy figures connected to Notre Dame and its football program from 1842 through 2024.
Platform
When the nation was in the throes of Covid, Pat began paying attention to Governor Ron DeSantis on account of his courage in acting against conventional wisdom by keeping Florida schools, beaches, and businesses open. Then, when DeSantis won his historic red wave re-election in previously pale purple Florida – November 2022 – and the buzz began about his possible run for president, Pat started following him more closely in mainstream media, and reactivated a dormant account he had on Twitter to participate in a growing grassroots movement supportive of his run. Soon after, Pat joined an X group known as “The Iowa Gang,” which was eventually invited to join Team DeSantis for President, promoting his candidacy throughout Iowa.
As a member of Team DeSantis, Pat designed, wrote, and produced approved promotional literature circulated on Twitter, and distributed throughout the larger Iowa precincts once he arrived there with other members of the “Iowa Gang” to assist Team DeSantis – working the town-halls, door-knocking in target neighborhoods, and phone-canvassing ahead of the Caucuses. In addition, Team DeSantis designated Pat as one of its Caucus Speakers, and he was honored to speak at several precinct caucuses on the Governor’s behalf. All of this enabled Pat to interact with the Governor and his wife Casey, as well as with several members of his inner circle.
After the Governor withdrew from the race following the Iowa Caucuses, Pat remained in contact with members of his administration with a view towards ongoing service to him in some capacity. While waiting for word on that, Pat converted his legal website- doingjustice.com – into one devoted to helping the Governor defeat “Amendment 4,” a pro-abortion referendum that had just been approved to appear on Florida’s November 2024 ballot (the same website you’re viewing now, repurposed for his forthcoming book). In addition, Pat joined both the DeSantis administration’s approved statewide grassroots organization – Vote No on 4 Florida – devoted to defeating the amendment, and the Governor’s Faith & Community Initiative, devoted to doing regular anti-4 outreach via zoom meetings with pastors and other faith leaders throughout the state. Pat then gathered his fellow Iowa Gang members, along with dozens of others he’d met on social media, to help him drive traffic to his anti-4 website, and to help him collect contact information from Florida parishes so he could send them all periodic emails about his anti-4 website, the website for Vote No on 4 Florida, and links to each of the bi-monthly Faith & Community Initiative’s anti-4 zoom meetings.
While immersed in all of this throughout the Spring and Summer of 2024, Pat was offered and accepted a full-time paid consultant’s position to assist the Florida Pregnancy Care Network, the prime contractor appointed by Florida law to administer the Florida Pregnancy and Parenting Support Services Program for the Florida Department of Health. Happily, this position synergized well with Pat’s private volunteer work throughout the period leading up to and after the defeat of Amendment 4, and also allowed Pat to canvass Jacksonville precincts on his personal time, as early voters went to the polls during the week immediately preceding the victory over Amendment 4 on Election Day.
Then in February 2025, Pat took an indefinite leave of absence from his consulting position to complete his manuscript and begin marketing his Forgotten Father of Notre Dame book.
As for Charlie Kirk, Pat began paying attention to his messaging on social media at about the same time as his pre-Iowa interactions with “The Iowa Gang,” since Charlie was also expressing his interest in the campaign of Ron DeSantis, and how he was faring in debates and polling.
Charlie’s tragic death moved Pat to write this latest book about him and Governor DeSantis, and to follow the TPUSA organization as a way of tapping into its rapidly growing membership, and generating interest in the book and its message as the 2026 mid-term elections approach, and as Ron DeSantis transitions from Governor to whatever the future may hold for him. Should he choose to run in the next presidential election cycle, the book will serve its intended purpose from 2026 to 2027, and hopefully, through 2028.
