Interviewed by Ross Rojek

The writer, born in 1930, is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. A memorable moment was seeing the famous match race; Seabisquit beat War Admiral at Pimlico in 1938. He served in the United States Air Force during the Korean War, and was honorably discharged in 1954. The writer was married, the father of a son and daughter and a grandparent of two. As a registered civil engineer, he specialized in hydrology, storm water management, and land development design. Since retiring in 1995, the author has divided his time doing volunteer and part time work, some travel, research at the Library of Congress and writing.

America´s direction is rabid deficit spending which moves the economy. Wealth aside, this business appears a no win since Congress mortgaged America for spending money. The reverse mortgage for seniors follows the same path. The senior is asked to sacrifice equity for spending money.

The book traces a history of money in America, past and present. America today, like other countries in the global scheme of things, is a domesticated international. Great Britain ruled for two and a half centuries; pound sterling was the exchange, this during America’s emergence. There was a transfer of power after two World Wars. America and the Soviet Union took up the pace. The dollar exchange won out in 1989.

In the new world order, the Middle East, Asia, China, the European Union, third world countries, and terrorism emerged. Warfare continues! In 2010, is the dollar waning? What will be the future formidable currency exchange? Money knows no boundary and it has no flag.

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Human Society, as we know it, goes back some 200,000 years to a time when we learned to speak and communicate our thoughts. The ”Nine Pillars of History” are derived from nine basic requirements for a healthy and prosperous society during the following 190,000 years of Hunting and Gathering. Sexuality, a fundamental human need that in history goes back much further than society, had to be mitigated with the first social rule: The Golden Rule. The “Nine Pillars of History” are used as non-political common denominators to judge the political evolution of some thirty major countries or cultures. In addition, the same Pillars are partnered with the Golden Rule to explore five world religions, Hinduism, Buddhism,Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Since about 5000 years back, economy joined the Nine Pillars of History in order to secure our places in society. The history of the evolution of economy into an integral part of our modern society is analyzed in a final and upcoming part of the book. Economy has a floating value while the Nine Pillars are of eternal value. This difference has deep and given consequences as explained in this final printing.

The relevance of “The Nine Pillars of History” are proven by the fact that they exist integrated across multiple societies since the dawn of time and are still relevant for our modern world. This historical review reveals that dogmatic religions and harsh politics have caused 10,000 years of war by repeatedly challenging the relevance of “The Nine Pillar of History.”

Doctor Sevelius gives his view as non-political, non-religious thoughts. Each paragraph in his new book has been numbered to offer an easy to use reference system for community discussion of specific statements.

“The Nine Pillars of History” gives you, Dear Friend and Reader, a unique vision for peace as Dr. Sevelius respectfully borrows President Lincoln’s enduring truth, “that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from this earth.

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Miriam Pawel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who spent 25 years reporting and editing on both coasts. While a reporter at Newsday, she chronicled the early years of Mario Cuomo’s governorship and presidential ambitions, the state’s troubled prison system, and wasteful spending at public authorities. As an Assistant Managing Editor forNewsday and the Los Angeles Times, she oversaw coverage of thousands of major stories, including the California gubernatorial recall election in 2003, the deadly wildfires that same year, and the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island. Her staffs won journalism’s top honor for coverage of both the wildfires and Flight 800. Returning to reporting in her adopted home of California, she delved into agriculture, one of the state’s largest yet least examined industries, with a four-part series on the United Farm Workers, which led to her book Union of their Dreams.

She left The Times in 2006 to write The Union of Their Dreams, supported in part by a fellowship from the Alicia Patterson Foundation. She traces her passion for piecing together the past back to her undergraduate days at Harvard University, where she majored in Classics. A native of Great Neck, N.Y., she now lives in Pasadena.

Contact author at Miriam Pawel mpawel@unionoftheirdreams.com

Read the review of The Union of Their Dreams.