With characteristic boldness, the author has inserted the diagnostic scalpel at every major point at which a potentially fatal malady lurks under the skin of our nation: Theology, Philosophy, Politics, Economics, Foreign Policy, Islamic Terrorism, Defense, Education and the multiple Moral sicknesses that are, like an epidemic disease, eroding the soul of our nation.

The most prominent lesson of human history is that all nations and civilizations have within them the seeds of decay, disaster and death. Without exception those seeds are the same ones that John Chalfant identifies in this epochal volume. The issue of the survival and greatness of a nation, versus its decay and ultimate death, goes to the question of the ascendancy of moral principles in its populace and leadership.

America's great founders were seminal thinkers - innovators who applied the compelling lessons of all past history to the establishment of a new nation. The rails that they laid down, codified in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States of America, were sufficient to keep America on the assured pathway to greatness and permanency. However, in the course of time a tragic and potentially disastrous derailment from those founding principles has occurred.

A disease of monstrous proportions has afflicted the soul of the nation, in the form of alien philosophies which bear little resemblance to the proven realities that are the historically proven seed-plot of national greatness. Not to identify and expose the evident symptoms of this disease would be to perpetuate them. Chalfant has rendered a uniquely appropriate and righteous service for all Americans by targeting the symptoms of the national disease and calling the nation to greatness by pointing the way to recovery.

To read this trenchant and compelling volume is to become enlightened as never before concerning the pathway to doom that is remarkably similar to what Edward Gibbon exposed in his epic "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." To ignore it is to remain vulnerable to the deadly cancers that threaten America, and to contribute in abysmal ignorance to its decline and potential downfall. This timely book belongs in every public and school library in America, and in every shop, city hall and home as well.

Destined to be ignored by the major media moguls who so enthusiastically spread the killer germs of the civilization destroying disease that has placed America on the downward side of the slippery slope, it remains for the faithful remnant of God-honoring citizens to stand on the rooftops of our nation and shout the virtues of this book that, if heeded, will set the nation on a bright new pathway to greatness. Let the presses roll, and the airwaves be filled with the virtues of this amazing volume.

rGet this book. Read and digest its contents. Buy it for your friends, relatives, neighbors, business associates and yes - even your ideological foes. Unquestionably it is destined to change many minds. See that it finds a place in your local public libraries, and as a textbook in schools far and wide that are hungry for life-sustaining, civilization-enhancing truth. Give it to your elected officials. Not only will it show them the darkness; it will show them the way out of the darkness and into the light of that shining city on the hill.

America-A Call to Greatness richly deserves a prominent place in the foundation of the new America that must be the happier home of this and all future generations.

H. Edward Rowe, B.A., Th.M., D.D. has served as executive director of Coral Ridge Ministries (Dr. D. James Kennedy's national TV organization), executive director of the Religious Roundtable, administrative director of the American Security Council, executive director of Anita Bryant Ministries, president of the Church League of America, and president of the Christian Freedom Foundation.