Zell Miller Attacks Deficit of Decency in New Book

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 10, 2005

New York Times bestselling author Zell Miller probes the very soul of America in his new book, “A Deficit of Decency” (ISBN 0974537632). 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.

The new book addresses specific issues where Miller sees a need for a 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 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 life-long 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.”

In February of 2004, Senator Zell Miller delivered the speech “A Deficit of Decency” on the Senate floor. The speech generated an unexpectedly massive response from people across the nation. Miller’s new book expands on the themes introduced in this speech.

"A Deficit of Decency" will be in bookstores in May 2005 and is published by Stroud & Hall Publishers, based in Georgia. Stroud & Hall also published Miller’s “A National Party No More.” “A Deficit of Decency" is already a featured book in the American Compass book club.

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.”

According to Randy Evans of McKenna, Long & Aldridge, who represented Senator Miller in the negotiations, Stroud & Hall Publishers acquired world-publishing rights to the book—including pre- and post-publications serial rights, English language and translation rights, and audio and electronic rights. The terms of the agreement are not being disclosed.

“Stroud & Hall is proud to be working with Zell Miller as his publisher on this timely new book,” said Cecil Staton of Stroud & Hall Publishers. “The values Zell Miller advocates in ‘A Deficit of Decency’ are the same issues that Americans yearn to see reflected in our culture and our government.”

Additional information concerning the book may be found at the publisher’s web site: www.stroudhall.com, through 478-757-0988 or bookinfo@stroudhall.com.

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