Christopher A. Jansen is a student of world history and declines of Empires. He is a legal immigrant coming to America in 1961 with his parents who immigrated here based on the dreams of his father to live in a free society coming from then Communist dominated Eastern Europe.His father was a resistance fighter during World War II, first fighting the German onslaught raging across his homeland and then the Russians.Coming to America was his dream when he discovered that the author's mother, his wife, had located her brothers living now in America.He became the true ideal immigrant as Teddy Roosevelt imagined and envisioned. He wanted to come to America and to become an American.The author is… truly the ideal product of the dream of what coming to America means to immigrants. He read about the American moguls of the early 1900's and used as his role models the Dupont's and the Rockefellers, and the dozens of other successful self starters who became his role models.The Author's grandmother was a fabulous businesswoman in the time of the last TSAR, Nicholas, running a far flung business empire of textiles and liquor and was murdered by the Bolshevicks as a member of the bourgeois class in 1921, causing the placing all her 20 children (author's mother being the 20th and a new-born) into orphanages.The author is truly the example that President Teddy Roosevelt envisioned having "meted in" as an American, becoming a successful businessman and living the American dream, reaching the pinnacle of financial success, acquiring the former mansion of Tony "big tuna" Accardo as his home. The 25,000 square foot home, featuring an indoor olympic size pool, twin bowling alleys and the rumor of the ghost of Jimmy Hoffa being buried under the pool, was the largest home in the close in suburbs of Chicago and was featured in the movie RAW DEAL, featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger.The author has written several books on finance, acquiring a business including "MILLIONAIRE IN 365 DAYS..A STEP BY STEP DAILY DIARY OF HOW TO GET THERE."The decline and destruction of America is inevitable when compared to the previous declines of might empires. The book was referenced in the 2008 presidential debates and the candidates were asked to comment on the rise of the Latino class in America. The author can be reached by email at; chrisjansen@mail2world.com