Book Signing & Discussion w/ Dr. Steve Porter

We are pleased to welcome Steven Porter, an unaffiliated Independent candidate running in the 3rd Congressional District of Pennsylvania, for a book signing and speech about his new book The American Covenant.

(He will give a speech from 2-3, and he will be signing books from 3-4)

Book Description:

The American Covenant is a philosophical treatise that states the conditions by which a democratic moral standard needs to be derived and then presents such a standard for consideration.  Finally, the standard is applied to a myriad of contemporary issues to illustrate how the dangers of America’s moral amorphousness might be ameliorated within the philosophical strictures of the Constitution. The work is written in easily understood language rather than the often arcane verbiage of academic philosophy. It is not simply a text of social theory, but I hope a means by which many of the problems of our society can more successfully be understood and addressed

About the Author:

    Steven Porter was born in New York City in 1943 and throughout his life has continued to develop four streams of activity: education, political involvement, writing, and music.
     He earned BS, MA, PhD, and PD degrees in fine arts and educational administration at leading university centers in the New York metropolitan area, and enjoyed a career in teaching and educational administration which lasted from 1967 to 2003.
     Steve began his involvement in politics in the 1960s with Councilmanic races inNew York City. Later, as a Graduate Fellow at Queens College, he worked for New York Senator Robert Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign. In 1990, the Democratic Party asked him to run for the NY State Senate. When he moved to Pennsylvania, the Democrats again approached him to run for the United States Congress which he did in both 2004 and 2006. Since 2006, Dr. Porter has been an Independent.
      Steve began writing and composing in 1970 and since then has published over 150 works for the concert and theatrical stage as well as twenty books ranging in topics from education to theatre and from fiction to political science and philosophy. His choral works continue to be performed many times each year around the world. Among his books are Wisdom’s Passing, America’s Dying Democracy, andPreserving America. (www.preservingamericathebook.com).
      In 2010, Dr. Porter was invited by Matrix Media, Inc. to launch an internet program entitled Preserving America (after his book of the same name). The intent of the program is to discuss in a carefully researched, non-partisan way the political and social events of the nation and the world. The show can be heard via the internet on http://webtalkradio.net/shows/preserving-america/. 
      Steve and his wife, Rita, have been married for 38 years, and together they have devoted much of their marriage to the rescue and rehabilitation of abused and abandoned animals.