Novel Tends To Vindicate Clinton's Civil Rights Comment

PRLog (Press Release) - Jun 25, 2009 -
Cagayan de Oro, Philippines. When she was running for president, then Senator Hillary Clinton ignited a firestorm of protest and controversy when she said, “Dr King’s dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It took a president to get it done.” The comment reignited the debate which has raged for decades over the motivation for President Johnson's sudden shift to become a major catalyst of civil rights legislation, most prominently the “Great Society Programs.” If what Peavy discloses is true, then Presidential Candidate Clinton will be vindicated. However, for the moment, the controversy continues and that is why the novel is being published in the United Kingdom.

Why did he do it? Why did President Lyndon Baines Johnson, a Son of the South, the epitome of the Southern Democrat, force the U.S. Congress to pass the Great Society programs? These questions have haunted historians and political pundits for decades.

Now, in a moving, enlightening and revealing historical narrative, Don E. Peavy, Sr. reveals in Disaster Among the Heavens, a compelling reason for the unprecedented and bewildering actions of former President Johnson. Based on research of many governmental documents following the great declassification which followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, Peavy pieces together a shocking tale of how close America came to disaster as the result of a group of black revolutionists from Chicago who were able to take over NORAD and hold America hostage until the Great Society programs were enacted. It seems ironic that another African American from Chicago has been elected president of the USA to lead a different kind of revolution.

 Disaster is a commentary on disaster movies and a parody of novels and our culture.  It is fast paced action with twists at every turn. Satire, humor, wit, and a keen sense of history and culture are employed to create a myth that transforms senseless violence into the etiology of President Johnson’s Great Society Programs.

About the Author. Don E. Peavy, Sr., teaches religious studies at Victor Valley College as well as philosophy, ethics, and religion at the University of Phoenix, Southern California Division.  He is a member of the National Writers Union.
Peavy now resides in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines where he is finally able to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a writer. “Disaster” is Peavy's first novel. He has had published two nonfiction works: a book on Christian ethics entitled, “What Must I Do?”: Bridging the Gap Between Being and Doing, which was published by Kendall/Hunt in 2006 and a book of philosophy, “Play It Where It Lies”: How to Win at the Game of Life, published by Hamilton Books in 2007.

For more information, contact: The Write Stuff, P.O. Box 0360, Cagayan de Oro City, 9000 Philippines. Or telephone 213/784-0830(USA). Email may be sent to donepe@msn.com.