"Peter Childs is a retired musician who performed in venues across this country and abroad, and who worked as an accompanist to some of our finest artists in recording studios and onstage.   He is an inveterate activist who has served on six non-profit boards of directors; he is also a mystic of sorts with definite ideas (some would say excessively so) regarding the danger and, far more important, the promise of these astonishing times.   Some of these ideas are on display in his recent book “Of Thee I Sing; The American Experiment and How It Can Still Succeed” (available e.g. at Amazon)."