Can a Bankrupt America Survive the Current Islamic Threat?

Lessons from Fallen Civilizations #1

by Larry Kelley

Islam's aggression against the West has been constant for the fourteen centuries of its existence. The armies of Allah conquered most of the Christian Middle East and nearly conquered all of Christian Europe twice. Americans know that the fall of Rome has ominous lessons for America. They instinctively know that there are always barbarians at the gate. Using history as its guide, Lessons From Fallen Civilizations poses and answers the question -Can a Bankrupt America Survive the Current Islamic Threat? Today, millions of militant Muslims awake every morning plotting the destruction of the US. Many are among us. They are our neighbors and co-workers. Their mission is to first intimidate, then to destabilize our economy and ultimately to plant the black flag of Islam at the top of the White House. Lessons demonstrates how immutable laws have always governed the fall of five great civilizations. It shows how those immutable laws can be seen to repeat over time, and how they are at work now. It is a saga which chronicles the decisions, deeds, and heroics of our ancestors who saved the West. It identifies the decisions we must make and the actions we must take in order to remain a free people. Kelley's "Immutables" demonstrate how a declining America will fall at the hands of Islamic extremists.

358 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2012

About the author

Larry Kelley’s life was utterly changed by 9/11. On the day after the attacks, on his way to work, he was struck by the sudden realization that World War III had commenced. Like most Americans he desperately wanted to find out who were these people who attacked us, what could ordinary citizens do to join the battle and how can those plotting to kill us in future attacks be defeated. Mr. Kelley has written scores of columns on the dangers of western complacency.

In his tenure as a political commentary writer, he has made a significant impact. His feature articles have appeared in the Piedmont Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Human Events, and Townhall Magazine. Two of his articles were featured on the cover of Townhall Magazine. He wrote an Op-ed which appeared in the liberal San Francisco Chronicle a month before Obama was inaugurated entitled, A Second New Deal is a Recipe for Disaster.

Two and half years later, on August 6, 2011, the Chronicle ran the front-page headline–S&P Downgrades U.S. Credit Rating. The result of ten years of research, his book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, contains the answers the above questions he asked in the wake of 9/11. His book has already received critical praise as a saga which begins on the plane of Marathon in 490 BC and whose main character is Western Civilization.

Larry Kelley is currently a marketing consultant to technology companies, a freelance writer, and one who’d whimsically be self-described as a former adventurer, not to mention an early developer of the modern skateboard.

In the late 70s, he attended the University of California at Santa Barbara and earned a B.A. in English Literature. In between readings of Milton, Keats, Wordsworth, and Jack Kerouac, he took up surfing and adopted the resident neo beat-generation surfing subculture of Isla Vista, that off-campus “youth ghetto” overlooking the Pacific.

Reminiscent of the narrator in Kerouac’s On the Road, soon after graduation and with practically no money, Kelley embarked on several solo, madcap, endless-summer, surfing explorations beginning with sojourns at the international surfing Mecca of Biarritz, France, and including Lisbon, Tangiers, Casablanca as well as other unnamed, hang-outs and breaks in southern Morocco and the Spanish Sahara. After a surf trip to the Caribbean and Central America, Kelley moved to Vail Colorado to ski and write on his first novel.

Kelley has climbed the five tallest peaks in the lower 48 states including the Grand Tetons (see photos of the range in the above banner and the author on the summit to the left).

Today Kelley’s interest (some would say obsession) is in commenting on how our creeping collectivization threatens Western Civilization.

Reviews

[Stephanie F. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish that this book was mandatory reading for everyone in the United States.

It expertly parallels the factors leading to the destruction of past civilizations and how those factors are appearing today in the U.S.A. The author spends a great deal of time (and I enjoyed it) describing what happened to ancient Rome, Greece, and the Ottomon empire. This would be a great book to read for high school students studying world history and US history to show them how history is important and not a waste of time to study (that was a constant complaint I remember hearing).

It saddens me deeply how many citizens refuse or don't care to follow current events and leave everything that effects us to the people that work in Washington. Militant Islam will and does effect the US and every person living in it and it is up to the people and the government they elect to control what happens.

I enjoyed this book because it educated me on important factors in today's world and it motivates me to learn more and act to make a difference to increase nationalism and protect the ideals of what our society should be like.