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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 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. ...more

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	Can a Bankrupt America Survive the Current Islamic Threat? (Lessons from Fallen Civilizations #1) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An American Slave in Barbary: The Odyssey of Winston Prescott Jones 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Way Forward (Lessons from Fallen Civilizations #2) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lessons from Fallen Civilizations: Volume One 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lessons from Fallen Civilizations: Why Great Societies Fail 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	LESSONS FROM FALLEN CIVILIZATIONS {Lessons from Fallen Civilizations}: Can a Bankrupt America Survive the Current Islamic Threat? by Larry Kelley (Feb 16, 2012) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	CALLED, DELIVERED, CHOSEN: MY JOURNEY FROM THE STREETS OF ST LOUIS TO FREEDOM IN CHRIST by Larry Kelley (Goodreads Author), Ruby Kelley, TRINA KELLEY 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Larry Kelley rated a book it was amazing The Battle For The Jewish State: How Israel―And America―Can Win by Victoria Coates	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I listened to Victoria's personally recorded audio version of the Battle for the Jewish State twice. She filled in gaps in my knowledge of our recent foreign policy that I didn't know. Her story is of the birth and never-ending military struggles of ...more
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I found Mary Theroux's analysis of and prescriptions for solving the nation's homeless problem to be at once shocking yet hopeful. Living in California, as do I, we wonder how it is that the problem only seems to get worse despite the vast sums of mo ...more
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I attended an appearance by Liz Wheeler, where she gave a lively talk and I purchased a copy of her extremely well-written, informative book. It is filled with fascinating case studies, such as her tale of Betty Friedan, her Marxist counterpart. Fr ...more
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Cotton's book is an excellent reference for the avid China watcher and chronicler. Although we allow Trump slack as he continuously tells us what a fine fellow is Chairman XI, we know our president is merely setting the table for future negotiations. ...more
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As the preeminent living historian and classicist, in the Dying Citizen, Hanson makes his reader understand that the leaders of our current system of governance are bringing about the collapse of our middle class, swelling the ranks of the new Americ ...more
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“Unlike some of the Arabs of antiquity who learned to make a living as farmers or merchants, the mark of manhood for the Arab nomads who followed Muhammad was the possession of arms, obsession with honor, and claim to pastures, camels, and women. Robbery and murder outside the protective confines of one’s clan were simply the means to an end.” 125 It was upon the ethos of the ruthless raid that Muhammad founded Islam.”
― Larry Kelley, Can a Bankrupt America Survive the Current Islamic Threat?

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