Book Listings

Publishers Weekly said: "Casserly is a masterful storyteller." (Reminiscences on my world travels and travails accompany this list.) 1. THE TRIUMPH AT TIANANMEN SQUARE (Incredible odyssey of Americans inside China) 2. CAESAR'S COIN (Coin marches through history from the time of Julius Caesar to today) 3. INVISIBLE WOUNDS (GIs face the horror of combat -- post-traumatic-stress disorder) 4. GOLDWATER (The New York Times bestseller on the life of Sen. Barry Goldwater) 5. THE HEARSTS -- FATHER AND SON (The tempestuous lives of the media kings) 6. SCRIPPS -- THE DIVIDED DYNASTY (the gripping battles of America's first media family) 7. ONCE UPON A TIME IN ITALY (The sentimental yet rousing love story of a reporter and his family living seven years in Italy) 8. THE DANCING ANGEL (A family explodes amid the crisis in the Catholic Church) 9. LIONS IN THE CITY (A dying missionary in Africa comes home to the battle of his life) 10. THE FORD WHITE HOUSE -- (A first-hand look at how the White House is run) These books can be ordered AT AMAZON.COM, B&N.COM and bookstores.

To Plant A Seed

Most of my life has been spent as a news reporter, author and sidewalk philosopher. Age has led me year by year to a fork in the road. The spiritual soul has become more important than the intellectual man. This is an inevitable choice between the mortal and immortal in each of us. It is why I began this blog -- to listen to the echo of my life's remembrances for an explanation as to why I find myself at this crossroads. Meng Tze, a venerable Chinese scholar and dear friend of many years, told me one of his ancient secrets: "You're now approaching 80 years of life. At that reverent time, a man must have fashioned himself into a complete gentleman. He is reaching for the mountain of his existence, the Mandate of Heaven." Meng was a 72nd-generaton descendant of Mencius, the Chinese philosopher of the 3rd century B.C. who developed Confucianism almost as much as the Great Teacher himself. I pondered his meaning -- the heavenly mandate to choose the perfection of my spiritual life over mortal concerns. Thus, my prayer is to plant a seed in some small spot on this earth where truth and tranquility may rise in the wilderness of those who have chosen the wrong direction.

A Great Ride

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BOOKS BREAD AND WINE are the beginning and end of every life. Books are to each man, woman, and child a record of the past and a vision of the future. They fill the mind and heart with knowledge and hope. Books are a sacred testimony to the existence and advancement of the human race. BREAD exhibits the nourishment of life, a symbol for the cafeteria of mankind. WINE is the nectar of the gods and music of the soul, man's cultivation of the earth and human spirit. It was blessed by Jesus when he changed water into wine at the wedding feast of Cana. I have tried, in all ten of my books listed above, to cultivate the human spirit. As part of that record, thousands of my news articles are yellowed in dusty libraries. BOOKS BREAD AND WINE also includes remembrances of my footprints along life's way --reflections covering some 60 countries and wars from Korea to Vietnam...from the Vatican to the White House...from a poor Great Depression kid to his interviews with presidents and popes. It's a great ride from a bread line on the South Side of Chicago to Rome, Vietnam, Washington and New York. THESE REMEMBRANCES ARE A WORK IN PROGRESS. NEW EPISODES WILL BE ADDED WEEKLY. SO COME BACK AND SEE US. Perhaps you may consider buying some of my books -- TIANANMEN...CAESAR...GOLDWATER...the HEARSTS...WOUNDS...and ITALY have been most highly rated. BLESS YOU!

China Will Dismantle the Old World Order

The 21st century is dawning over China and the East. The Old World Order now wanes over the Western World. That is why it is important to read THE TRIUMPH AT TIANANMEN SQUARE. It explains the background to the 1989 massacre and the resulting momentous changes in the New China.

• Some of the world's leading economists believe China is poised to surpass even the remarkably rapid ascent of the U.S.A. as a global economic and military superpower. Some 85% of the world's entire economic growth over the next 20 years will come from China and India. Never in history has a nation developed at such an astonishing speed as China. The Chinese economic revolution will impact every country in the world.
• World Bank data estimate that China has soared from 45% to 97% of the U.S. economy. That stunning comparison means that in the next year or two China will be more critical to the world economy than America.
• Warren Buffet is buying a billion dollars worth of a single Chinese oil stock.
• Beijing's currency is now undervalued but the regime is expected to free it against the U.S. dollar and other major world currencies. Top American investment brokers expect China's currency value to soar dramatically against the dollar in the next five years.
• American and European industries have never encountered such competition.
• These are reasons whyAmericans would do well to read THE TRIUMPH AT TIANANMEN SQUARE.