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RICHARD MCKENZIE NEAL
About the Author: Richard McKenzie Neal
One should never equate education and/or intelligence to wisdom…
Richard was born in Hope, Arkansas (Bill Clinton’s boyhood home), in 1941 and his father w...view moreAbout the Author: Richard McKenzie Neal
One should never equate education and/or intelligence to wisdom…
Richard was born in Hope, Arkansas (Bill Clinton’s boyhood home), in 1941 and his father was gone prior to Richard turning two years old. He never knew the man, but attended his funeral as a sixteen-year-old.
Before boarding a Greyhound bus for California, at seventeen, Richard knew two stepfathers and a number of others who were just passing through. During those teen years, before succumbing to the beckoning allure of the outside world, Richard worked at an assortment of low-paying jobs. Summers were spent in the fields…picking cotton and/or watermelons and baling hay. He also worked as a plumber’s helper and a carhop at the local drive-in burger stand.
After dropping out of school, eloping and landing in California, he soon realized how far out of his element he had ventured. And without the guidance of his “Constant Companion,” Richard would have spent a lifetime floundering in a sea of ignorance and ineptness…and his books would not exist.
Richard’s first book (Fridays With Landon) was driven by his son’s life-altering heroin addiction. He had hoped not to author a sequel, but left the book open-ended due to historical concerns, which did in fact…resurface. For 25 years the family has endured the emotional highs and lows associated with the chaotic, frustrating and more often than not…heartbreaking task of rescuing one of their own, from the always ebbing and flowing tide of addiction.
The unintended sequel (The Path to Addiction…) was triggered by a mind-numbing relapse after 30 months of sobriety. The second book was then written to bring closure…one-way or the other. The author advanced several possible scenarios for the ending of that book, but only one of those possibilities was favorable.
His third book (The Long Road Home…) is a philosophical journey that we’ll all experience as our time here begins to dwindle.
The fourth book (We the People) was driven by what he saw as the dismantling of America and the circumventing of its Constitution. Additionally, the ominous cloud of socialism and a New World Order looming over Washington motivated him to speak up, in spite of political correctness’ muzzle.
This, the fifth book was written to confirm and document the realities of those fears and concerns chronicled in the preceding book. While those fears and concerns were driven by the current administration, his nightmare now is the possibility of that same administration being returned to office, for another four years, in 2012. He has grave apprehension regarding America’s future should the unthinkable happen.
All five books were written after retiring from a rewarding, thirty-six years in the oil industry.
Our success should be measured by what we gave up (what it cost us) to obtain it...and not by what we accomplished and/or accumulated.view less
Books by RICHARD MCKENZIE NEAL
The Path to Addiction...: "And Other Troubles We Are Born to Know." The New World Order: Manifest Destiny Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fridays with Landon: "Another Time...Another Place" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Compromising of America: An American Tragedy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmerica...: "Hanging by a Thread." Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWe the People: A Christian Nation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Long Road Home...: A Philosophical Journey. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings