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Enduring Legacy Press is the brainchild of Dr. Criswell Freeman.

Criswell graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1976. He earned his Doctorate at the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago. He also attended Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville where he studied under the noted pastoral counselor Wayne Oates. 

Criswell has published well over a hundred titles, and he has sold over 7,000,000 books to date (and he's quickly closing in on 8,000,000).Currently, you will not find his books on any best-seller lists, but you can probably find one or two of his titles at a check-out counter near you.

In the process of creating ELP, Criswell's goals were, in no particular order:

1, To create a national network of Publishing Partners, each of whom possessed the opportunity to earn a significant income through local publishing;

2. To create a business model that was able to share up to 90% of net revenues with its Publisher / Franchisees;

3. To allow Publishing Partners the opportunity to create recurring revenue streams in order to create wealth and to prepare for retirement;

4. To create a business model that allows Publishing Partners to own their Franchises for $1.00 (plus, of course, an investment of "sweat equity")

5. To capture the local histories, the accomplishments, the stories, and quotations of our friends and neighbors.

Criswell is working so hard to meet these goals that he gave up talking on the telephone (he has no business phone, no fax line, and his home number is unlisted). But if you'd like to know what's on his mind, visit him at his regularly-updated inspirational web page: www.quotedoctor.com.

For an article about Criswell that appeared in 2002 in the Washington Post, click here.