The Rise and Fall of Practically Everything

"The Rise and Fall of Practically Everything" asks several pertinent questions. Are we in America on the verge of losing our civilization? Will America become just another great nation that failed? Is this "Home of the Brave" on a perilous journey to the dust bin of history? All the indicators in today's culture say yes to the above questions. But there is something we can do about it.

Bill Keith is an award-winning journalist who served as an investigative reporter, city editor and editor of three newspapers in Louisiana and Texas. He was a war correspondent in Vietnam and also had assignments in Tokyo, the Philippines and West Berlin and traveled in 35 other countries. He earned the bachelor of arts degree in writing /journalism from Wheaton College in Illinois, the master of divinity from the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and received a graduate diploma from the Tokyo School of the Japanese Language. Through the years he served as the director of public relations for the Baptist General Convention of Texas; a Louisiana state senator representing the people of Shreveport; senior editor of Huntington House Books, Inc.; and president and chief fundraiser for the Academic Freedom Legal Defense Fund. He and his wife Vivian Marie live in Longview, Texas, and have six children in their blended family: Tara Rose, Kim Westfall, Richard Keith, Miguel Mendez, Marisa Murphy and Lindsay LeBell. The Keiths are members of Pathway Church in Longview. Keith has written 20 books - both fiction and non-fiction - including Days of Anguish, Days of Hope (Doubleday); The Commissioner (Pelican Publishing Co.); Scopes II/the Great Debate and The Divine Connection (Huntington House, Inc.); Joy Comes in the Morning (MV Press); W. A. Criswell/the Authorized Biography (Fleming Revell); Gettin Old Ain't for Sissies; The Prayer Bag and Other Stories that Warm the Heart; and The Magic Bullet - a novel - all available from www.BillKeithBooks.com.