Deficit of Decency Debuts at #9 on the New York Times Bestseller List
2005 05 06
Atlanta, GA – Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) impacted legislation for years with his no-nonsense common sense view on politics. In his new book, A Deficit of Decency, Miller candidly confronts issues that led him to question his own Democratic Party. Debuting at #9 next week, Miller is now a two-time New York Times bestselling author.
A former U.S. Senator and Georgia Governor, Miller identifies a wide range of issues—from media and sports role models, to the judiciary, to the decline of traditional Christian values of family, responsibility and sacrifice—where an absence of decency is threatening the heart of America.
“There have been ten generations of Americans since this nation was founded,” writes Miller, “…Each left this nation in a little better condition than they had inherited it from their parents. This is the first generation at risk of doing the opposite. Why? I have come to believe that it is because we failed to acknowledge and discipline ourselves with the spiritual truths that have made us great for these two hundred years-–faith, family, country, values. This book is about how one man thinks they may be restored and yet save this great civilization – from itself.”
“They don’t speak our language and they refuse to learn it. They take health care dollars away from our struggling seniors, our needy children and our deserving veterans. They clog up and sometimes even close down our hospital emergency rooms. They are the chief reason our schools are overcrowded. They make up almost a fifth of our prison system with each inmate costing our taxpayers more than $22,000 a year which could be going to someone’s college education. America has been invaded by a foreign country and Washington Doesn’t Care.”
“At the very core of this marvelous journey is a critique of the soul of our nation, what it will take to build on the freedom and liberty passed on to us by out forefathers and, in turn, leave our children a stronger society,” writes The Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity in the foreword.
Senator Miller served in the United States Senate from 2000-2004. He presided over an 85 percent approval rating in his two terms as governor, making him Georgia’s most popular governor in modern history. He is a former marine, college professor, mayor, state senator, and lieutenant governor, and is the author of many books, including A National Party No More and Corps Values: Everything You Need to Know I Learned in the Marines.
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