Reviews

"I would take this opportunity to thank you for sending me Custom Maid for New World Disorder. I appreciate your thoughtfulness. I wish you all of the best in your future endeavors."

Feasting Dragon
”Fine work with Feasting Dragon. It well sums up America’s trade & foreign policy: “Eat Me!”
P.J. O’Rourke
Author, Columnist & Raconteur

“A serious and timely book.  De Krassel goes about illuminating his readers’ horizon about Sino-U.S. relations from his unique personal freedom-loving literary graphic point of view while providing them with some well-timed guffaws along the way. I can understand and will not be surprised if he is never allowed to set foot on American soil again ? or water boarded if he is.”
C.P. Ho
Member Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference

“China-USA expert Peter G. de Krassel sets a literary feast of international analysis, slicing and dicing the political, economical and industrial ingredients of the two global superpowers. Drawing upon his insightful Custom Maid trilogy: Spin, War and Knowledge, Mr. de Krassel serves up easily digestible tidbits of wisdom that make his latest work a must-read for everyone who desires to enhance their understanding of this complex and vital relationship. Bon appétit!”
Michael Broggie
Historian and Author

"Consumers expect that a fine watch should have a nice face and, of
course, keep faithful track of time. Reading this book on the intricacies of the US-China relationship--its problems and opportunities--is like removing the watch case and examining the internal mechanism. The question of immediacy is: Who in the future is going to be able to fix our watch if none of us make an effort to understand how it functions?"

The question of immediacy is: When our classic watch breaks down in the near future, who is going to fix it, given that no one has made an effort to understand how the moving parts function?"

Pleasure Man, Speaker and award-winning author of Pleasure Island

“This essential guide provides a panorama of the problems and
opportunities present in the US-China relationship. Whether we're talking about sports, economics, trade, education, the increasing juxtaposition inherent in this relationship is a wake-up call for action.

Peter de Krassel rightfully asserts that America is, geopolitically,
acting like a drunken teenager. "We the People" must be the parent, bailiff, and therapist. It is up to us to realign our social, economic, and political priorities, because no one else can do that for us.”
Brandon Royal
CPA, MBA, award-winning educational author

“A very thoughtful piece of work which comes just in time …”
Zhao Chu senior fellow
Deputy Director, Shanghai National Defense Institute

This book is a cookbook for those who want to read the deep background on Sino-American relations. Literally, Mr. de Krassel approaches each chapter as a meal course (“Soup,” “Salad,” “Dessert”, etc.). And interestingly, the chapters ARE courses—not of epicurean delight, but in the varied lessons and fables of how the Chinese ‘Dragon’ is eating the American ‘Eagle.’ The book is replete with causes (factual and antidotal) and effects (outcomes: good and bad, mostly bad). A must read for politicians concerned with globalization as it relates to history and future of the U.S. De Krassel points out, for example how the United States intended to make Japan a “cornerstone of U.S. policy in Asia” and proceeded to herald Prime Minister Taro Aso as Obama’s first dignitary to visit the White House after his election—“even as Aso’s own country was trying to get rid of him, and did in July 2009.” This, as de Krassel points-out, was a slight to the Chinese, especially in the face of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s China-bashing during her campaign.

Environmentalist will also find intrigue in some of the book’s observations, such as how the U.S. pushes China for reducing its impact on the environment but, among other counter productive actions, pushes China to increase its supply of steel’s raw material of coke. Coke is derived from processing coal and thus causing increased air pollution.

From an educator’s perspective I found some of the material about how China depends so much on the U.S. education system. This demand is boosted by students’ drive for a U.S. degree. For example, some students employ stand in candidates to take the English-Language exams: “There are hundreds of ‘shooters’ [stand-in exam takers] working for syndicates or as freelancers that openly advertise their services.”

The author draws on both his intellectual knowledge and pedestrian experiences to weave this provoking book. De Krassel is a superb raconteur.

My complaints are both mixed; namely, the ‘contents’, mimicking a cookbook, leave me wanting for a more user-friendly way to locate subject matter and the index does not help much. The book reveals a myriad of important factoids, but to identify the source you must access the author’s web page. Researchers will have limited patience with this approach.

A five-star must read for students of China. I highly recommend the book.
Mark Tigan
PhD, Associate Professor Clark University

Custom Maid Spin
"Radical ideas. de Krassel is committed to a great cause and a very significant mission." Richard Carswell, Author of "From Success to Significance" and "The Ultimate Selling Secret."

Custom Maid for New World Disorder
Political Dust Storms, Corrosive Money and Slick Oil
By Peter G. de Krassel

Custom Maid Knowledge For New World Disorder
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Custom Maid Knowledge for New World Disorder
"America, China and other rising world leaders must guide the world through the 21st century from globalization to interlocalism as part of a 'new reality' that focuses on the economic interaction between different communities. That's the message of Custom Maid Knowledge for New World Disorder, a weighty treatise on the geography, politics and economics of this new world environment. College-level collections strong in modern world trends, both economic and political, will find this an important reference."  Tara Lichterman, Midwest Book Review

"This book is dynamite. One of the best I've read. I learned a lot from it. Each page is pure dynamite. I couldn't put it down."  Erskine Overnight, USA Radio Network

"A guy after my own heart! A book I urge you to read."
Gary Sutton, WSBA, York, PA

"The book conjures up visions in my head, to use a Native American saying, of American politicians speaking with fork tongue".
Phil Fink, WELW, Cleveland, Ohio

"The book protests our dependence and reliance on Middle East oil and encourages conservation and alternative environmentally friendly sources of energy".
Bill Mazer, WVOX, New Rochele, New York

"de Krassel documents the social, political and cultural ills affecting America".
Mary Jane Popp, KAHI and KSAC, Sacramento, California

"Chock full of information. Incredibly rich."
Ron Saxon, WNTI, Hackettstown, New Jersey

"A great book on how Americans can retake, remake, reshape & fix America."
John Nuzzo, WMBA, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania

"A clarion call. A blockbuster."
Bill Bertenshaw, WOR, New York City

"A well reasoned critical look at American culture, media and political spin."
Jordan Rich, WBZ, Boston

"A manifesto on why the U.S. must re-orient and clean up it's act to survive, thrive and continue to guide guide."
Sybil Tonkonogy, WNTN, Newton, MA

"de Krassel provides a piercing and compelling snapshot of today's world taken with a wide angle lens.  His penetrating observations of the shifting sands of our globe offer a snapshot of the future taken with a telephoto lens.  It's an unsettling look at ourselves, seen through a mirror.  A must read."
Zev Yaroslavsky
Supervisor, Third District
County of Los Angeles 

"A huge and heroic effort to plan for the World - and particularly America - in the belief that it can be turned into a different shape. De Krassel is either mad or a seer or both."
Stuart Wolfendale, columnist, The Stardard (Hong Kong)

" ... totally provocative but in the process, Peter highlights some conveniently forgotten home truths. An absorbing read ..."
C.P. Ho, Hong Kong member, Chinese Peoples' Consultative Committee

"Peter de Krassel does not pull his punches ... America is rotten to the core."
Karl Wilson, Agence France-Presse

"Peter de Krassel is mad, but then he has a lot to be mad about.  Some people channel aggression with a gun, but not Peter.  Instead, he picked up his pen and wrote the kind of book that you talk back to.  Custom Maid provides a response.  My copy is full of notes in the margin, only a few of which say Amen, brother!  I don't agree with everything in Custom Maid.  The book hasn't changed my life.  But, something in the back of my mind, where I can't quite put a finger on it say, '...yet'."  -  David O'Rear, Chief Economist, Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce.

"The FCC has found its own Michael Moore, no not the one who headed the World Trade Organization for a half term, but that gadfly of American politics, the author of Stupid White Men.

His FCC equivalent, Peter de Krassel, however, has the advantage of experience not limited to the borders of the United States alone and his targets for stupidity in Custom Maid go a little wider than white men alone.
The result is a wide ranging catty read - Hey, wake up, the world is moving on and will leave you behind if you stay stuck in yesterday's way of thinking. The style is vintage Michael Moore right down to that
folksy chat way of writing and digressions that catch the author's mind but leave you with the titter of a punch line as the reward for veering aside."
Jake van der Kamp, columnist, South China Morning Post