Samuel James was raised in the Midwestern United States by a very dysfunctional evangelical family. He now resides in Pasadena, California, He obtained Bachelor of Arts degree in both sociology and political science plus two years of Masters study in Psychology. Self-taught plus some schooling gave him the Engineering skills to enable him to engineer major projects for both the US Government and State and local governments, By age 32, he had built a Federal and State construction business and a manufacturing business, where he engineered and designed all of the products, and his net worth was $20-million. He sold out to a Fortune 500 company. He also taught math and government in secondary schools and is a certified teacher,HIS KNOWLEDGE FOR THIS BOOK was not a result of the above. He travelled the world and witnessed many cultures and poverty, torture, human slaveryIndia, Central America, Viet Nam, Thailand, Mexico, China, Africa, 51 states of USA. His own family of "evangelical" origin put him in prison twice, once based on perjury by his brother and the second time by robbing him of his entire business. Altogether the author ha been in 17 jails and 11 prisons and asylums and his own father orchestrated the author's siblings to these things and his father participated. The author escaped from a Federal Penitentiary and created an identity that got him to China where he engineered and designed electric vehicles, did import/export and was an adviser, paid by the China government to advise Chinese businesses about marketing to the USA. He was given offices in Hangzhou, China. He deplores people who think money is a religious goal and accumulate money while 3/4th of the world starves and those who think that their way to heaven is church attendance on Sunday and more specifically the fraudulent "multi-millions" accumulated by "snake-oil" evangelists. THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST are not false words. The author is currently working on two larger books: "HOW I ESCAPED FEDERAL PRISON USING PSYCHOLOGY (and survival for 10 years as a fugitive)" and "SNAKE OIL SALESMEN stealing from the poor and depressed".
