With the growl of the Marine sergeant he was, Senator Zell Miller leaves no doubt that he believes his own Democratic Party is badly out of step with most of the country and needs to shape up or ship out. As part of a stinging critique of the Democratic Party, Miller outlines key positions on important issues that can again make the party relevant for the entire nation. From tax cuts to welfare, gun control to the environment, the arts to education, immigration to terrorism, Miller identifies values that make sense to a growing majority of Americans. Miller's candid analysis of the campaigns of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton further underscores his conclusion that the Democratic Party can no longer field a serious presidential challenge. Many party loyalists will not like what Senator Miller writes; yet his credentials are beyond question, for few Democrats have worked longer or stronger for the party and its candidates.

A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat

Politics & Social Sciences

Zell Miller

Politics & Government

Stroud & Hall Publishers

In February of 2004, Senator Zell Miller delivered the speech "A Deficit of Decency" on the Senate floor. The speech considered the very soul of America and generated an unexpectedly massive response from people across the nation. 
Expanding on this theme in his new book by the same title, former U.S. Senator and Georgia Governor Zell Miller identifies a wide range of issues—from media and sports role models, to the judiciary, to the decline of traditional Christian values of the family, responsibility and sacrifice—where an absence of decency is threatening the heart of America. 
"A Deficit of Decency" addresses specific issues where Miller sees a need to return to a basic sense of duty. Miller writes in the preface, "There have been ten generations of Americans since this nation was founded….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." 
In "A Deficit of Decency," Miller also speaks candidly about the values that led him to attack his own party and deliver a keynote speech at the 2004 Republican National Convention. These same values, he believes, are desperately needed at the heart of American culture. Miller explains, "There were two primary reasons I could not go where my lifelong political party wanted to take me. I seriously questioned its judgment on how to respond to the threat of terrorism, the most serious national security issue of the post Cold War era. But I also came to be repelled by the secularism that had engulfed its thinking and smothered its soul." 
Miller writes from the unique perspective of his rise to and service as Governor and United States Senator, drawing upon public service in each of the past six decades. Miller has written six books, including "Corps Values" and the New York Times bestseller "A National Party No More".

A Deficit of Decency

Hannity, Sean

Sean Hannity

Sociology

Purt Nigh Gone: The Old Mountain Ways, the latest book by New York Times best-selling author, former U. S. senator and Georgia governor Zell Miller, is about a way of life that once was, but is no more. Time has taken its toll on much of the unique Appalachian mountain culture. Only a remnant now remains. “Purt nigh gone”…or “pretty near gone”…is the region’s disappearing dialect, swallowed up by exposure to mass media popular culture. Nearly gone as well is the area’s traditional music, its food, its old-time religion, its humor, and even its moonshine. While considering these fading treasures, this book also looks at the Appalachian mountains in their prehistoric times, when they rose higher than the Rockies, at the Cherokees and their removal, at the nation’s first gold rush, and at the timeless question of whose mountains these truly are. Finally, Zell Miller leaves us with 101 good reasons for living in these mountains today. But after reading through these remembrances of a time “purt nigh gone,” you will hardly need them. These mountains will feel like home already.

Purt Nigh Gone: The Old Mountain Ways

Biographies & Memoirs

Miller, Zell

Historical

Red State Rising: Triumph of the Republican Party in Georgia

Tommy Hills

History

In 1971 embattled President Richard M. Nixon sought to use the Internal Revenue Service as a weapon to investigate and punish his "enemies." Tapes of White House conversations reveal that Nixon wanted as Commissioner "a ruthless son-of-a-bitch that he will do what he is told; that every income tax return I want to see I see; that he will go after our enemies and not go after our friends." Attorney General John Mitchell recommended one of his assistants, a specialist in tax law, Johnnie McKeiver Walters, for the key post. Walters was confirmed as Commissioner of Internal Revenue in August of 1971 and served until 1973. Apparently neither Nixon nor Mitchell ever spoke with Walters to ensure he would aid them as they desired. In fact, Walters was "shocked" when White House counsel John Dean presented him with an "enemies list," and he refused to politicize the IRS as Nixon wanted. When presidential domestic advisor John P. Ehrlichman confronted Walters about his "foot-dragging tactics" in regard to ordered audits, Walters told Secretary of the Treasury George P. Schultz that he could "have my job anytime he wanted it." In an administration largely remembered for its abuse of power, Walters stands apart for his steadfast performance under pressure.

Our Journey

Walters, Johnnie M.

To tell the story of Bill Usery is to tell the story of America. While Bill Usery's life is, of course, remarkable as an individual American's biography, what makes his story truly unique is how his life parallels the story of America in the 20th century. From the evolution of the modern South, to the experience of the G.I. in the Pacific theater, to the rise and fall of the labor movement, to the excitement of the Space Race, to the triumphs and travails of the Nixon and Ford years, to the globalization of the world economy, and even to the beginning of the end of baseball as we know it, Bill Usery marched through 20th century America. Bill Usery defined the modern era of labor-management and helped our country maintain its forward momentum and status as a world power. During his career, the nation witnessed better working conditions, better wages, better relations between labor and management, and an overall better way of life. Remarks from the July 17, 1974 congressional record read, "People all across the nation owe a great debt of gratitude to Willie J. Usery. He has tirelessly devoted his full energies toward keeping America strong." To tell the story of this American is to tell the story of America!

Laboring for America: Memoirs of Bill Usery

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Stroud & Hall Publishers publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Stroud & Hall Publishers