WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Nov. 3, 2009 — In a startling new nonfiction detailing the grim realities of contemporary America, "Eminent Disdain: The Triumph of Cynicism over Integrity in 21st Century America" (published by AuthorHouse), the new nonfiction by Bromwell Ault, sheds light on failures of major U.S. institutions, including the U.S. Congress, public media and the Department of Homeland Security, which in combination have spelled the disintegration of American values. Ault challenges Americans to reclaim their nation and show that they put principles above party politics.
Honest, accessible and wide in its scope, "Eminent Disdain" locates its discussion of contemporary America within the highly conflicted economic, religious and political world which the U.S. has inhabited over the last two decades as the world's sole superpower. Along with a massive explosion of technology, wealth and population, the past century has seen the gap between the rich and the poor widened ever further and the existing power structures altered beyond recognition. Ault focuses his criticism on those American institutions that have become obsessed with what he calls "the growth game," a race to gain ever more power and growth in the absence of concern over American cultural welfare and national identity.
Ault sheds light on myriad issues that are treated with political indifference by the polarized, elected government, including immigration, education, the environment, healthcare and other domestic policies. He writes:
We should be concerned about our change of character, for the extent to which we allow our integrity to be eroded is the measure of our national cynicism. In twenty-first century America it is palpable, persistent and mostly unopposed! These chapters are rife with deceit, arrogance, ethical and functional failures, human error and corruption, which support a climate and circumstances that could well prove fatal to our democracy. Whether we can prevent such a fate, whether we can undertake a truly national, cooperative effort to rebuild our institutions and whether we can reform the way our government and society, functions is now a matter of will. I believe this can be done, but we must recognize that time grows ever shorter and, as it does, the odds of success longer.
While "Eminent Disdain" pays frequent attention to the past, in order to highlight how far we have come from what our forefathers had envisioned, Ault's vision is firmly rooted in America's future, one that he believes could be a bright one should Americans and their representatives choose to begin the painful process of changing our ways of thinking and way of life.
Bromwell Ault was born in 1927 in Cincinnati and grew up in New York City during the Great Depression. He received his bachelor's degree at Yale University and began his career in earnest at an advertising agency in New York City. Ault has lived in Florida for the past 14 years and has three children from a previous marriage. In 1957, he published his first book, "A Retail Food Study," which was privately printed and distributed.
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