As a way of introducing my newly published, psychologically based book to you,  entitled: What Would the Founding Fathers Say?: How Today’s Leaders Have Lost Their Way, I’d like to share with you how I came to write this book. What was my motivation to do so.

I grew up during WW II. My father was too old to join the military, but, in his own way, he was very patriotic. He believed in supporting the war effort by buying war bonds and doing anything else to help defeat the Axis powers: Germany, Japan and Italy. He said that if he were younger, he would gladly join the service and give up his life to safeguard America’s freedoms.

He believed that the Constitution was the greatest document ever written, and that Benjamin Franklin was the greatest American that ever lived. As a creative engineer, I think he admired Franklin because of his prowess in natural “engineering” of ideas.

That’s because Dad earned an engineering degree from MIT and, like Ben Franklin, loved inventing or creating things.

I believe if he studied our Founding Fathers as I have, he’d recognize there were many people of that era to admire and claim as men of history to admire, but if he were to put aside all his prejudices and biases, he’d conclude the greatest man of that era was George Washington, “The Father of our Country.”

When I was a young teenager, Dad asked me and my two older brothers who we thought was the most famous person during the Revolutionary War period? I really was at a loss what to tell him, since I didn’t know anything about that period in our American history. I knew nothing about our Founding Fathers, because I never had an American history class in school, or if I did, sadly, I didn’t remember anything about the subject. But that question prompted my curiosity about that period in history from that time forward.

My father was always a strong influence in my life. I accepted what he said at face value, because he said it with such conviction. As a result, I’ve always had a deep love of country and what it represented to me, believing that America symbolized all that’s good in the world. Recently, however, I discovered how very broken our system of government is today and that was the primary reason I wrote: What Would the Founding Fathers Say?