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Introduction to Jim Wesberry
GIVING THANKS
E-MAGAZINES CURATED BY JIM
ARTIFICIALIDAD vs VERACIDAD (AI)
ARTIFICIALITY vs VERACITY for Peruvian JCI Senate
THE REAL INVISIBLE HAND / LA MANO INVISIBLE VERDADERA ............(traducción en español más abajo)
THE FALTERING EAGLE: Speech made in 1970
CLEPTOCRACIA 1990 articulo para el 25 aniversario de ILACIF
ENFRENTANDO LA CORRUPCION EN TIEMPOS DE COVID, Conferencia - Profesionales del Bicentenario del Perú
ETICA E INTEGRIDAD, Congreso Organos Internos de Control, del Estado de Guanajuato, Mexico via Zoom
EL IMPACTO DE LA INTEGRIDAD, presentación en el Foro ISAF de Sonora, Mexico via Zoom
Donde fueron nuestros valores? Como podemos recuperarlos?
75 ANIVERSARIO DE LA Federación Nacional de Contadores del Ecuador
VIDEO: El Auditor Frente sus Tres Mayores Desafíos
MIAMI KEYNOTE: Public Financial Management, 2016
CONFERENCIA: CONTROL INTERNO Y ÉTICA: ESTARÍAN PERTINENTES EN 2025?
CONFERENCIA 6a Conferencia de Auditores Ecuador: El Auditor Interno Frente sus Tres Mayores Desafios
CONFERENCIA CReCER 2015: Empresas Estales en Busca de Etica---State Enterprises in Search of Ethics
CONFERENCIA QUITO HONESTO: Ambiente Etico = Municipio Eficiente: Principios de Conducta Etica, 2014
DOCTORADO HONORIS CAUSA - UNIVERSIDAD INCA GARCILASO DE LA VEGA, LIMA, PERU - 2013
DECORATION BY THE PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT 1972
My Work in Peru / Mi trabajo en el Perú
CONFERENCIA EN HUANUCO, PERU - El Auditor enfrenta la Erupcion de Corrup$ion del Siglo XXI -2013
CONFERENCIAS EN CHILE - 3 Mayores Desafios al Auditor Interno - 2012 - VIDEO y TEXTO
THE CONTINUING FINANCIAL CRISIS
GEORGIA CORRUPTION ON MY MIND
Personal Information
My Resume (in English)
Mi Curriculum Vitae (en español)
Personal Photo Album
ACTIVITIES & EVENTS INITIATED
The Top Quartile of Life
AMERICA IN DECLINE? The Life Cycle of a Great Power
ACCOUNTANCY & AUDITING: MY CHOSEN PROFESSION
SERVICE AS PAGE IN US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1949-51
SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR OF CORRUPTION IN STATE GOVERNMENT 1959-60
LEGENDS: Georgians Who Lived Impossible Dreams
Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 US 1 Landmark US House Reapportionment Case
POLITICS - MY FIRST CAMPAIGN 1961
POLITICS - ELECTION TO GEORGIA STATE SENATE 1962
GA POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION
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LA TRANSFORMACION POLÍTICA DE GEORGIA DE 1963
Press Clips from Georgia Senate Service
The Best Speech I Ever Made
Why I Quit the Georgia Senate
Congressional Testimony
Activities in the Junior Chamber of Commerce
Contador Benemerito de las Americas (Most Meritorious Accountant of the Americas)
Articles from The Journal of Accountancy
My Credo
Media
Interview about Leadership
ACCOUNTABILITY - RESPONDABILIDAD
THE EVER GROWING, EVER STIFLING BUREACRACY
PONZIS and PIRAMIDES
GRAPHIC DISPLAY OF US DEBT
CALCULATE YOUR DEBT LIABILITY
Fraud-Corruption-Bribery
Collusion Breaks Internal Controls
FORENSIC AUDITING --- AUDITORIA FORENSE
FRIENDSHIP - AMISTAD
Creencia - Belief
Think -------- Pensar
WOMAN -------------- MUJER
Dawn
Message to Garcia - Mensaje a García
THE GREATEST SPEECHES OF ALL TIME
Education
Interesting!
POEMS
ATLANTA, GEORGIA USA - MY HOME TOWN
WASHINGTON DC - MY OTHER HOME TOWN
PERU
ECUADOR
MEXICO
PHILIPPINES
Conferencia Senado JCI Perú
COLOMBIA VS KLEPTOKAKISTOCRACIA: Presentación para el Día Internacional Anti-Corrupción 2011
LECTURE AT MANILA'S UNIVERSITY OF THE EAST: Integrity & Honor, Corruption & Dishonor VIDEO
MANILA LECTURES AT FAR EASTERN & SANTO TOMAS UNIVERSITIES: Good Governance and Social Responsibility
EFFECT OF 2008 GLOBAL CRISIS (JW presentation in English)
SEGUNDA GRAN DEPRESION 2010 (JW presentaciónes en español)
Speeches - English
More Speeches
Conferencias / Discursos - Espanol
Mas Conferencias / Discursos
Power Point Presentations
ANTI-CORRUPTION EVENTS & REPORTS
Favorite Links
Quotes by Jim Wesberry
Documents, Articles - Documentos, Articulos
Books Read
From the Past
Contact Me
Family Photo Album
The Wesberry Surname
Miscellaneous
Technology Use in Fighting Corruption
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My grandmother Lillian Galloway Wesberry and my step mother Mary Sue Latimer Wesberry read to me as a child and taught me to appreciate reading diverse books.  "Mother Sue"would take me to Atlanta's downtown Carnegie Library every two weeks to return read books and check out more. As I became older she encouraged me to read biographies.
 
When I was 15 and 16 working as a Page in the US House of Representatives the Page School was located on the 4th Floor of the Library of Congress Building. Our school had the largest library in the world.  I guess that tremendous experience also taught me to love books. . While working as a Page I joined the Book-of-the-Month Club and bought and read many books. 

During my professional career I was primarily occupied with reading professional journals and books  and unfortunately had little time for others. 
 
I have always loved to browse in libraries and bookstores. When I worked for USAID with my office in the State Department Building in Washington I had the privilege of being on the same floor as the State Department's library.  I took my lunch hour every day browsing through the several floors of books and documents.  It was an unforgettable experience. 

Once I retired I returned to voracious reading which I love. The following are most, but not all, of the books that I have read since I retired.

Books I have Read Since I Retired

 

(AM) Amazon...(Lib)  Library...(RD) Readers Digest Condensed Book

(E-Book) Electronic Book

 

LEGENDS: Georgians Who Lived Impossible Dreams, Gene Asher (AM)

Character Makes a Difference, Mike Huckabee (AM)

From Hope to Higher Ground, Mike Huckabee (AM)

Living Beyond Your Lifetime, Mike Huckabee (AM)

The Audacity of Hope, Barack Onama (E-Book)

Hyperculture: The Human Cost of Speed, Stephen Bertman (AM)

Ponzi’s Scheme, Mitchell Zuckoff (AM)

So Far from God (Mexican-American War), John S. D. Eisenhower (AM)

Blacklisted by History (McCarthy), M. Stanton Evans (AM)

Saving the Americas, Andres Oppenheimer (AM)

America Alone, Mark Steyn (AM)

Surrender is Not an Option, John Bolton (Gift)

My American Journey, Colin Powell (Lib)

Last Breath, Peter Stark (Lib)

The Next Christendom, Phillip Jenkins (AM)

Your Best Life Now, Joel Osteen (AM)

Hero for Humanity: A Biography of William Wilberforce, Kevin Belmonte (AM)

The Wilberforce Connection, Clifford Hill (AM)

A Practical View of Christianity, William Wilberforce (AM)

The Future of Christianity, Alister E. Mc Grath (AM)

Strong Religion, Almond, Appleby and Sivan (AM)

The Language of God, Francis S. Collins (AM)

It Takes A Family, Rick Santorum (AM)

A Christian Manifesto, Francis A. Schaeffer (AM)

Ordering Your Private World, Gordon MacDonald (AM)

The Faith of George W. Bush, Stephen Mansfield (AM)

 

The Rise of American Democracy, Sean Wilentz (AM)

Democracy in America, Toqueville (AM)

The Cheating Culture, David Callahan (AM)

A Game As Old As Empire, Steven Hiatt, (Gift)

Looting America, Rosoff, Pontell and Tillman (AM)

The Great Santini, Pat Conroy (Lib)

Mary, Bloody Mary, Carolyn Meyer (Lib)

The Last Templar, Raymond Khoury (Lib)

The Fiery Cross, Diana Cabaldon (Lib)

Moon Dust, Andrew Smith (Lib)

The Darkest Jungle (Darien Expedition), Todd Balf (Lib)

Pyramid, Tom Martin (Lib)

The Long Gray Line, Rick Atkinson (Lib)

Yazoo, Law and Politics in the New Republic, C. Peter Magrath (AM)

50+ Igniting a Revolution to Reinvent America, Bill Novelli (AM)

U.S. Grant and the American Military Tradition, Bruce Catton (Lib)

I Am Not A Crook, Art Buchwald (Lib)

The Dark Angel, Mika Waltari (Lib)

With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln, Stephen B. Oates

John Paul The Great, Peggy Newnan (AM)

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt (Lib)

Founder of Freedom in America: Lives of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence, David C. Whitney (Lib)

Irresitible Forces, Catharine Asaro, Ed. (Lib)

A Train to Potevka, Mike Ramsdell, (Lib)

Abraham Lincoln, Gore Vidal (Lib)

Abe Linclon Grows Up, Carl Sandburg  (Lib-RD)

To the Last Man, Jeff  Shaara (E-Book)

Schindler’s List, Thomas Keneally (Lib)

O Jerusalem, Laurie R. King (Lib)

Pompeii, Robert Harris (Lib)

The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw (Lib)

The Enemy at Home, Dinesh D’Sousa  (Am)

 

Dreams of My Father, Barack Obama

Sarah, Kaylene Johnson

The Shack, William P.Young

Presidential Courage, Michael Beschloss

The Preacher and the Presidents, Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy

An Unpardonable Crime, Andrew Taylor (Lib)

The Stone Angels, Stuart Archer Cohen (Lib)

The Secret Journals of Sherlock Holmes, June Thompson (Lib)

The Wisdon of Father Brown, G.K. Chesterton (E-Book)

The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle (E-Book)

Great Cases of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle (Lib)

The Lincoln Story Book, Henry Llewellen Williams (E-Book)

The Life of Columbus, In His Own Words, Edward Everette Hale (E-Book)

Inca Land, Hiram Bingham  (E-Book)

Cleopatra, H. Rider Haggard (E-Book)

Amazing Prophecies of the Bible, Timothy J. Daily (Lib)

Lost Horizon, James Hilton  (Lib-RD)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo (Lib-RD)

Nostromo, Joseph Conrad (Lib)

Day of Confession, Allan Folsom (Lib)

Babylon Rising, Tim Lahaye (Lib)

Scarlett, Alexandra Ripley (Lib-RD)

Comeback, Dick Francis (Lib-RD)

The Deceiver, Frederick Forsyth (Lib-RD)

Saving Faith, David Baldacci (Lib)

Clarence W. Darrow, Mike Papantonio (Lib)

Islam: A Short History, Karen Armstrong (Lib)

The Spring of the Ram, Dorothy Dunnett (Lib)

Daughters of Britania, Katie Hickman (Lib)

Echo House, Ward Just (Lib)

Colony Earth, Richard E. Mooney (Lib)

Captain Horatio Hornblower, C. S. Forester

Hornblower and the Crisis, C. S. Forester

The African Queen, C. S. Forester

3001 The Final Odyssey, Arthur C. Clark (Lib)

To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa, Pat Shipman (Lib)

The Tainted Relic, Jecks, Gregory, Knight, Morson, Gooden & Beaufort (Lib)

When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi, David Maraniss  (Lib)

Act of Treason, Vince Flynn (Lib)

The Right Attitude to Rain, Alexander McCall Smith (Lib)

Sincerely, Andy Rooney, Andy Rooney (Lib)

Silver Pigs, Lindsey Davis (Lib)

Iacocca: An Autobiography, Lee Iacocca (Lib)

 

The Winter Queen, Boris Akunin (Lib)

The One Percent Doctrine, Ron Suskind

The Silent Speaker, Rex Stout (Lib)

Might as Well be Dead, Rex Stout (Lib)

If Death Ever Slept, Rex Stout (Lib)

3 at Wolfe’s Door, Rex Stout (Lib)

Gambit, Rex Stout (Lib)

Please Pass the Guilt, Rex Stout (Lib)

A Family Affair, Rex Stout (Lib)

 

Contra Viento y Marea (Spanish, English: Against All Odds), Chuck Norris

 

When Hell Trembles, James P. Wesberry

Bread in a Barren Land, James P. Wesberry

Evangelistic Sermons, James P. Wesberry

Meditations for Happy Christians, James P. Wesberry


The Morningside Man: A Biography of James Pickett Wesberry, James C. Bryant

 

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Greg Palast (AM)

The Extreme Future, James Canton  (AM)

Revolutionary Wealth, Alvin and Heidi Toffler  (AM)

Power to the People, Laura Ingraham (AM)

The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business (AM)

What's So Great About Christianity, Dinesh D’Sousa (AM)

Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader, Dinesh D’Sousa (AM)

Outrage, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (AM)

Slander, Ann Coulter (AM)

The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11 (AM)

Bad Predictions, Laura Lee (AM)

The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki, (AM)

Megatrends 2010: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism (AM)

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking,  Malcolm Gladwell(AM)

Building A Healthy Culture: Strategies for an American Renaissance, Don Eberly (AM)

My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir, Justice Clarence Thomas  (AM)

Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome, Robert Harris

Bretheren: An Epic Adventuire of the Knights Templar, Robyn Young

The Last Templar, Raymond Khoury

Stupid History, Leland Gregory

Creation and Time, Hugh Ross

In Secret Service, Mitch Silver

World Without End, Ken Follett

Attila, William Napier

The March, E.L. Doctorow

America: What Went Wrong?, Donald L. Bartlett & James B. Steele

Liberty and Tyranny. Mark R. Levin

Thieves in High Places, Jim Hightower

Democracy Matters, Cornel West

The Forest, Edward Rutherfurd

At Home in Mitford, Jan Karon

A Lighjt in the Window, Jan Karon

Archangel, Robert Harris

The Conquest of the Incas, John Hemming

Father's Heinkel, Bernard Wicksteed

The Trumpeter of Krakow, Eric P. Kelly

The Tilsit Inheritance, Catherine Gaskin 

Triumvirate: The story of the unlikely alliance that saved the Constitution and united the nation, Bruce Chadwick  (lib)

The Case for a Creator, Lee Strobel (lib)

The Rebels, John Jakes

Simple Genius, David Baldacci

Dception Point, Dan Brown

O'Hara's Choice, Leon Uris

The Christmas Sweater, Glenn Beck

Gordon: Martyr & Misfit, Anthony Nutting

Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris, Susan Mary Alsop

The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason

Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings, Amy Kelly

A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, Bill O'Reilly

The Vanished Man, Jeffrey Deaver

Out to Canaan, Jan Karon

El Sari Rojo (Spanish), Javier Moro (Sonia Gandhi y familia Nehru/Gandhi)

Politics Lost, Joe Klein   (Lib)

The Path Between the Seas, David McCullough (Lib)

The Informant, Kurt Eichenwaldm (Lib)

Life After Death: The Evidence, Dinesh D'Souza (AM)

Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near Death Experiences,

      Jeffrey Long, MD  (AM)

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At this Point I Un-Retired and went back to work

BOOKS READ SINCE UNRETIRING (April, 2010)
 
The Informant,  Kurt Eichenwald
Cape Refuge, Terri Blackstock
Victory: An Island Tale, Joseph Conrad
The Five Thousand Year Leap, W. Cleon Skousen
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
The End of the Free Market, Ian Bremmer
Sainthood Postponed
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, Paulo Coelho
The Zahir, Paulo Coelho
The Devil and Miss Prym, Paulo Coelho
Conquistador, Buddy Levy
The Philippines: A Unique Nation, Sonia M. Zaide
Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaackson
The Pilgrimage, Paulo Coelho
Another Ending, Another Beginning: Recaoturing Our
   Nation's  Destiny, Fidel V. Ramos (Volume V of FVR "Sermons")
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century, George 
   Friedman
River of the Sun, James Ramsey Ullman
Chesapeake, James A. Michener
The West Point Way of Leadership, Col.(r) Larry R. Donnithorne
Sacred Fire, Peter R. Lillback
The Roots of Obama's Rage, Dinesh D'Sousa
America by Heart, Sarah Palin
His Lady Mistress, Elizabeth Rolls
Sonic Boom, Globalization at Mach Speed, Gregg Easterbrook
The Arrow of Gold, Joseph Conrad
How Evil Works, David Kupelian
Pastoral, Nevil Shute
The Gospel of Joseph, Gabriel Meyer
George Muller: The Guadian of Bristol's Orphans, Janet & Geoff Benge
Kakistocracy, Ronnie Amorado
Fixing Society, Ronnie Amorado
Reminiscences, Douglas MacArthur
Killing Lincoln, Bill O'Reilly
After America, Mark Steyn
 
 





BOOKS READ SINCE RETURNING TO QUITO AND SECOND RETIREMENT
 
The Seventh Scroll, Wilbur Smith
The Ambar Room, Steve Berry
Deep Dixie, Annie Jones
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Nearing Home, Billy Graham
Indivisible, James Robison & Jay W. Richards
Benjamin Franklin Autobiography
Jesus: A 21st Century Biography, Paul Johnson
Capitol Punishment, Jack Abramoff
Journey to the Well, Diana Wallis Taylor
The Amwerican Phoenix, Charles Dumas & Diana Choyleva
Suicide of a Super Power, Patrick Buchanan
This is Herman Cain, Herman Cain
They Think You're Stupid, Herman Cain
Faith and the American Presidency, Editors of Christian History &   Biography
King of Kings: A novel of the life of David, Malachi Martin
The Rose Legacy, Kristen Heitzmann
 
 
 

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect

                     --- Mark Twain

We have never observed a great civilization with a population as old as the United States will have in the twenty-first century; we have never observed a great civilization that is as secular as we are apparently going to become; and we have had only half a century of experience with advanced welfare states...Charles Murray

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