Bradley Smith has been described by the Los Angeles Times as an "anarchist libertarian" and by the Anti-Defamation League as one of the most dangerous "extremists" in America. In A Personal History of Moral Decay, he emerges as a simple writer struggling to find "right relationship" in a world where the political and the personal converge, without tidy resolution, through the coruscating prism of human experience. Threaded over decades and spanning continents, Smith's episodic memoir unspools in bright layers of crisp, laconic prose to illuminate the adventures, the moral failures, the fleeting epiphanies, and the interpersonal bonds that haunt and animate a life. Let this be your introduction to one of the most distinctive, if overlooked, voices in American literature.