Craig M. Zwickl Author of Blessed Nation


	Craig M. Zwickl, PhD - Author

By profession, I am a Senior Research Scientist at a major corporation involved in the healthcare industry and am an adjunct faculty member of the School of Medicine at Indiana University. As an undergraduate, I obtained a B.S. degree in biological science from Purdue University in 1975. From 1976 to 1982, I worked as a research technician in membrane biophysics and then in immunology at Michigan State University and obtained an M.S. degree in biochemistry while I was there. In 1982, I made the move from academics to industry and along the way earned a Ph.D. in toxicology from Indiana University. As part of my community service, over the last twelve years I have given many lectures to graduate students at the medical center and have been active in several leadership roles in my local parish church. My outside interests include reading and photography with a smattering of woodworking thrown in.

I live in the Midwest with my wife, Kathy, have two grown children, Lisa and Steve, four grandchildren, and three dogs (all chihuahua mixes). I had always told myself I would never own a little, frenetic, yappy dog with an attitude. Fortunately, each of our dogs is friendly, (relatively) calm and very loving, prompting me to let the conspirators off the hook. I have indeed been blessed to have always been surrounded by a loving family and by generous and caring people in my church, community, and workplaces.

In addition to the basic sciences, I've always been particularly interested in ancient history. More recently, however, I've become interested in American history for the simple fact that much of what I've been hearing during the last three decades about America, the Constitution, and the nation's founding principles simply don't jive with (and actually contradict) what I learned as a kid. As a scientist, I'm one of those who seems to be obsessed with truth based on evidence. I felt that the only way to know who was telling the truth about American history was to actually go to the original sources and read for myself.

In a way, I have been comforted to confirm that what I learned as a kid was indeed correct. On the downside, much of what kids are being taught today is either erroneous or, in some cases, seems to be deliberately deceitful. For example, the extreme interpretation of 'separation of church and state' that has led to expunging school prayer and the freedom to merely mention God or Christianity, even in invited speeches, though ruled unconstitutional by modern federal courts, is a ridiculous modern fabrication of constitutional intent for which there is not a single credible piece of evidence.

In my own limited way, I hope to help rectify the misconceptions around America's intended relationship with God and religion in general, by offering not my own unsubstantiated opinions, but by returning to Americans the exact words of their presidents in a book I entitled "Blessed Nation". This first book, published by Tate Publishing, Inc., in 2009, which begins with the Continental Congress and our presidents from Washington to Eisenhower, I hope to follow up in the future with a second book to complete the series and offer more personal insights into several of the social issues our nation continues to struggle with and debate.

Since it is through reading that people become educated in the truth as they are able to learn it for themselves, 10% of all of the revenue I receive from the sale of "Blessed Nation" is being donated to fight illiteracy.