Diary Of a Stranger in Babylon

About the Book

The diary was written over the final months of the 2008 presidential campaign. The author, Al Williams, offers an outsiders view of America's political process and why he had ever voted before. The salient narrative of the diary is American primacy and how that primacy is maintained through corporate control of politicians. Common of age during the 1960s serves as the psychological anchor for many of Al Williams’s political decisions and personal misgivings about America as such. The book is unconventional in style, well researched, apologetic, and frank. The Diary of a Stranger in Babylon is one man’s attempt to have his say in the crowded arena of social and political discourse.

About the Author

I was born in 1946 and raised in the Deep South before black was beautiful, voting was rational, and college was anything more than a pipe dream for Black people. These realities continued to shape my world view long after I became a man. My early years were dominated by a stern mother an absent father and a public school system determined to put white thoughts in my Black head. I was once disciplined for asking why we never learned about Black people in class. School did not excite me. Later Military service exposed many of the misgivings I held about the one nation thing. After the Army I soon became a crime statistic. The military is where I learned to sell and use drugs. My downward spiral ended only after I became homeless. In 2001 received a 100% rating as an honorably discharged disabled veteran and began to earn a college degree in 2005.