Harry Gael Michaels: 5 books

This is a 17,300 word essay describing significant events leading toward a decline of America's social and economic viability and some thoughts related to a reformation of basic institutions and ethics. It covers the period from the end of WWII up to and including the 2012 election for President...

The State of the Republic is an overview of significant political, social and economic events since the end of WWII, along with a look at the criminal justice system, that have led up to the quagmire of disorder witnessed daily among our political leaders in Washington. The American people are fraught...

Many Catholics, today, struggle with issues of faith in the Church and yet, as children, have been intimidated from questioning the “sacred dogma” for fear of jeopardizing their “immortal soul”. To a child growing up Catholic the unquestioned authority of priests pre-dispose children to the...

This is a story about one young man of Irish immigrant parents growing up in San Francisco and entering the Army shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.   During his high school years, he works at the Fisherman’s Wharf on weekends where he falls in love with...

As a retired school psychologist in the 1990s and juvenile probation officer before that in the 1960s the author has seen, over the years, an increasing level of violence, escapism into drugs, aberrant life styles and vicious bullying resulting in some fragile children committing suicide. School personnel...