Background
Harry William Crocker was born on December 15, 1960, in San Diego, California, United States, to Harry William Crocker, Jr. and Clara Hardy (Wellington) Crocker.
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In 1983, William received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California San Diego, La Jolla.
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William received a Master of Arts from the University of Southern California School of International Relations in 1986.
H. W. Crocker III
(Robert E. Lee was a leader for the ages. The man heralded...)
Robert E. Lee was a leader for the ages. The man heralded by Winston Churchill as "one of the noblest Americans who ever lived" inspired an out-manned, out-gunned army to achieve greatness on the battlefield. He was a brilliant strategist and a man of unyielding courage who, in the face of insurmountable odds, nearly changed forever the course of history.
https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Lee-Leadership-Executive-Character/dp/0761525548/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Robert+E.+Lee+on+Leadership&qid=1579170865&s=books&sr=1-1
1999
(What happens when a reactionary, retired British brigadie...)
What happens when a reactionary, retired British brigadier general comes to Los Angeles looking for his missing god-daughter? Comic chaos, that's what, with California beach babes, Jamaican drug gangs, and other colorful characters feuding and fighting in a mad search and rescue operation.
https://www.amazon.com/Old-Limey-H-Crocker-III/dp/0895261626/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=H.W.+Crocker+III%2C+The+Old+Limey&qid=1579171127&s=books&sr=1-1
2001
(Triumph is that history. Inside, you'll discover the spec...)
Triumph is that history. Inside, you'll discover the spectacular story of the Church from Biblical times and the early days of St. Peter—the first pope—to the twilight years of John Paul II. It is a sweeping drama of Roman legions, great crusades, epic battles, toppled empires, heroic saints, and enduring faith. And, there are stormy controversies: Dark Age skullduggery, the Inquistition, the Renaissance popes, the Reformation, the Church's refusal to accept sexual liberation and contemporary allegations like those made in Hitler's Pope and Papal Sin.
https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-Catholic-Church-000-Year-History/dp/0761529241/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=H.W.+Crocker+III%2C+Triumph%3A+The+Power+and+the+Glory+of+the+Catholic+Church%2C+A+2%2C000-Year+History&qid=1579171204&s=books&sr=1-1
2001
(In Don’t Tread on Me, Crocker unfolds four hundred years ...)
In Don’t Tread on Me, Crocker unfolds four hundred years of American military history, revealing how Americans were born Indian fighters whose military prowess carved out first a continental and then a global empire—a Pax Americana that has been a benefit to the world.
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2006
(In The Politically Incorrect GuideTM to the Civil War Cro...)
In The Politically Incorrect GuideTM to the Civil War Crocker profiles eminent - and colorful - military generals including the noble Lee, the controversial Sherman, the indefatigable Grant, the legendary Stonewall Jackson, and the notorious Nathan Bedford Forrest.
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2008
(Bestselling military historian H. W. Crocker III (The Pol...)
Bestselling military historian H. W. Crocker III (The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War, Robert E. Lee on Leadership, etc.) now turns his guns on the epic story of America’s involvement in the First World War with his new book The Yanks Are Coming: A Military History of the United States in World War I.
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2014
(Armstrong is a rip-roaring tale of action, adventure, and...)
Armstrong is a rip-roaring tale of action, adventure, and hilarity as the ridiculously handsome, astonishingly brave, and highly susceptible milk-drinking cavalryman travels through the untamed West.
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2018
Harry William Crocker was born on December 15, 1960, in San Diego, California, United States, to Harry William Crocker, Jr. and Clara Hardy (Wellington) Crocker.
In 1983, William received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California San Diego, La Jolla, and a Master of Arts from the University of Southern California School of International Relations in 1986.
In the mid-1980s Harry Crocker was a journalist and the youngest editorial writer on a major metropolitan newspaper, The San Diego Union. He also worked as editor-in-chief for Regnery Gateway and as executive editor for Eagle Publishing. He still writes occasional journalism for many national publications, including Crisis and the National Catholic Register. He also spent four years as a speechwriter for the Governor of California. But most of his career has been spent as a book editor, handling mainly political books, at Regnery Publishing in Washington, D.C.
Crocker is a prolific author, as well. His first book was Robert E. Lee on Leadership: Executive Lessons in Character, Courage, and Vision. His second book was a comic novel entitled The Old Limey, which The Wall Street Journal compared to Dickens in its power of conservative social satire, and which has been chosen for Barnes and Noble’s "Discover Great New Writers Program" for first novelists. He is also the author of Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church, A 2,000-Year History, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire, Yanks, and Don’t Tread on Me.
(What happens when a reactionary, retired British brigadie...)
2001(In Don’t Tread on Me, Crocker unfolds four hundred years ...)
2006(In The Politically Incorrect GuideTM to the Civil War Cro...)
2008(Armstrong is a rip-roaring tale of action, adventure, and...)
2018(Bestselling military historian H. W. Crocker III (The Pol...)
2014(Triumph is that history. Inside, you'll discover the spec...)
2001(Robert E. Lee was a leader for the ages. The man heralded...)
1999According to Crocker, who, when not writing, works as a book editor at Regnery Publishing in Washington, DC, the Catholic Church is generally seen by outsiders as a repressive institution that wrongly inhibits harmless and natural desires, inculcates unnecessary guilt, and is hypocritical in any event, full of sodomite priests, doddering bishops, and brutal nuns who attempt to force their minions to march in lockstep rote recitation of a rather gruesome and intolerant fairy tale.
Crocker explained that the Church affirms man’s freedom through the doctrine of free will – a doctrine that puts the Church at odds with the world. It is generally the world that talks of the fate of nations and individuals as being determined by race, economics, history, psychology, genetics, fate, astrology, the will of Allah, or even, predestination. The Catholic Church stands alone in radical defense of man’s free will and his God-given right to that freedom.
Crocker then talked of the fact that it is an often said, although incorrectly, that the Western world didn’t taste of freedom until the Protestant revolt of Luther. In fact, said Crocker, the Reformation Protestant critique of Catholicism was that it was too free. Catholics were seen as drunks, layabouts, and party animals, insistent on celebrating every possible saints day with booze and brawls. The Church was full of art and luxury and pagan-book-loving sensualists who forgave all rather than condemned all.
William asks, who today, stands for the freedom of every unborn child to the right to life? Who stands today for the absolute integrity of every individual life against genetic or other engineering of the human person? What institution in the United States is the greatest non-government provider – that is, non-coercive provider – of education, medical care, and aid to the poor? Crocker claims, that even here, the freedom for which the Church stands is under threat by interest groups and bureaucrats who would compel the Church to turn its hospitals into abortuaries, to force its insurance providers to cover the costs of artificial contraception that the Church considers sinful, and even potentially to dictate what is taught in Church schools.
But Crocker warned that there are more insidious ways to penetrate and secularize the Church from within. An institution like the Church, he said, is always an attractive target for certain revolutionary types who leave everything standing but cunningly empty it of significance.
He also cautioned, that today, one is less likely to find a French Revolutionary shooting priests, abolishing the Church of Christ and replacing it with the Church of Reason, throwing out the Gregorian calendar and starting again with the Year Zero. Yet just as dangerous, if not more so, you will more likely find men and women in Catholic institutions and in priestly and religious vocations who are at one with the secular world and who are content to leave everything standing but to cunningly empty it of significance. He explains that we can all find and defend freedom if we pursue the truth. He claims, that when modern men adopt the cynicism of jesting Pilate, saying ‘What is truth?’ we can tell them. We have not washed our hands of the responsibility of searching for it. Through reason, Revelation, and in our free will acceptance of truth through the gift of the Holy Spirit we are able to find freedom.
Quotations:
"Wherever one looks in the modern world, one finds massive confusion about the nature of freedom. For example, Catholics say you can smoke cigarettes, if you want to, that’s your choice."
"Secular liberals say, no, smoking is bad. On the other hand, secular liberals say, you can kill a baby if you want to, that’s your choice, because that baby is dependent upon you; you have power over it so use it and kill that baby if it’s inconvenient."
"Catholics say that freedom begins with the right to life, and that freedom cannot be defined as the right to kill those who are dependent on us; freedom cannot be defined as the abolition of responsibility."
"Let’s step back for a moment and distinguish two realms of freedom, because the Catholic Church is attacked on both – the personal and the political."
"Catholics have never tried to ban human nature. Instead, if we understand authentic freedom as freedom in the truth we understand that creation is good, the natural law is written on men’s hearts, and happy are those who march beneath the sign of the Cross – but there is a Cross, and our lives are a drama, a lifelong journey of sin and redemption."
"The spirit of Catholic freedom will always be vibrant, because it is a key to the faith. The true Catholic is someone who believes in loyalty to persons and institutions, fidelity to the faith, and otherwise letting the good times roll. I have confidence that this is also the spirit of Christendom College. You have a great slogan that I’ve seen: ‘To change the culture, it helps to have one.’ You can be sure you have the right one."