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A Personal History of Moral Decay Paperback – May 26, 2014

by Bradley R. Smith (Author), Tito Perdue (Preface)

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Bradley Smith has been described by the Los Angeles Times as an “anarchist libertarian” and by the Anti-Defamation League as one of the most dangerous “extremists” in America. In A Personal History of Moral Decay, he emerges as a simple writer struggling to find “right relationship” in a world where the political and the personal converge, without tidy resolution, through the coruscating prism of human experience. Threaded over decades and spanning continents, Smith’s episodic memoir unspools in bright layers of crisp, laconic prose to illuminate the adventures, the moral failures, the fleeting epiphanies, and the interpersonal bonds that haunt and animate a life. Let this be your introduction to one of the most distinctive, if overlooked, voices in American literature.

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Bradley Reed Smith was born in South Central Los Angeles in 1930. He is a combat veteran of the Korean War (7th Cavalry) where he was twice wounded. He has served as a deputy sheriff in Los Angeles County. He has worked as a railway brakeman, as a merchant seaman, and in various construction trades. He was once a bullfighter in Mexico, and he was a freelance writer in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive. As a bookstore proprietor in Hollywood in the early 1960s, Smith was prosecuted – and convicted – for selling Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. He is the founding director of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH). A Personal History of Moral Decay is his fourth book.

Reading Bradley Smith is about treasuring good writing, regardless of whether you deem the author’s opinions worthy of your moral rubber stamp; see also Céline. But if you must have a moral, Smith earned every phrase the hard way.
--Ann Sterzinger, Taki's Magazine

Like Camus’ Mersault, confronting a howling mob, or Beckett’s Malone, dying alone, Bradley Smith is at last content with his life. This collection of his writing give the reader the opportunity to learn how a man at the center of so much controversy and outright hatred can find the air so much sweeter just exactly right there.
--James O'Meara, Counter-Currents

Smith writes with an understated simplicity, the argot of a man with little education but a lot of brains. His prose is raw and functional, conveying the anarchy of war, the raunchiness of his comrades, the sincerity of his lovers with honesty and conviction.
--Matt Forney, author of Confessions of an Online Hustler

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Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Nine-Banded Books; First edition (May 26, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0989697282
ISBN-13: 978-0989697286
Product Dimensions: 4.5 x 0.8 x 7 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,308,167 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A fine writer, very honest, albeit a few gaps

ByJoseph Bishopon July 6, 2014

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I find Bradley Smith's writings very honest, skilled, and personal. Unfortunately he is underappreciated due obviously to his moral commitment to promoting open debate on the Holocaust via his organization CODOH. This has led to a sort of blacklisting in the publishing world. This latest work by him represents an anecdotal distillation of his thoughts, ideas, and various journals notes and manuscripts over the past half century or so. His personality and personal life are revealed as that of a relatively normal man who has had many extraordinary experiences but has also struggled with finding his own path and purpose.

There is not much in here on the Holocaust although that has ultimately turned out to be his life's work. A little, yes, such as how he came to doubt the 'gas chambers' narratives and began his 'revisionist' odyssey, but the bulk of these anecdotes are apolitical musings on his life and the lessons he has drawn from it. I am disappointed that there is nothing here on his experiences as a deputy sheriff, or how he began his newsletters and formed CODOH, his association with the Institute for Historical Review and its Journal, his thinking on Willis Carto, his many radio and television appearances, his attendance of the revisionist conference in Teheran a few years ago and his impressions of the Iranian leader, and other critical matters. There isn't even anything in here concerning his legal troubles over selling a banned book back when he was managing a bookstore in Los Angeles many years ago.

Perhaps there will be another volume? I hope so, as these gaps need to be filled. Quite simply, we need more.

All in all, I recommend this book by 'revisionist's Hemingway', the 'human face of revisionism', to everyone seeking to understand the inner life of this man, his thinking, and what he has learned through his life journey.

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Moral Awakening

ByHarvey A. Tayloron August 17, 2014

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Harry Elmer Barnes, revisionist historian, prior to his death wrote:" the generation which has gained its historical knowledge and perspective since the late 1930s has been deprived, cheated, and handicapped by the distortion and suppression of historical facts relative to world affairs." They are, historically speaking,a" lost and brainwashed generation."

Bradley Smith, despite societal pressures decide to look with eyes wide open. He will never be the same. Read "Moral Decay" and never be the same.

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Transcendent Crackerbarrel Exposition

ByC. Kraffton May 28, 2015

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Bradley R. Smith's reminiscences of a writer's life in Los Angeles, Korea and Viet Nam in the '50s and '60s are evidence that this long time crusader for free debate on the recieved history of the holocaust is anything but an ideologically driven crank. On the contrary, it becomes obvious after reading these penseés that he's an introspective and accomplished journeyman writer committed to delivering his insights on his life and travels in a sculpted prose that toggles between the poetic and the ordinary. If transcendent crackerbarrel exposition was what he was after then he succeeded in drawing me in. I'm not a big fan of contemporary literature, either.

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A great read!

ByDavidon September 4, 2014

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Very interesting insights into life in the second half of the Twentieth Century.
The Vietnam War, life in Hollywood, being a historical pariah all told with remarkable candor.
A great read!

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