Bill McBride, Author of the short thought-provoking book, The ROOT of all EVIL, is a native of Northwestern Arkansas. Also known as William Eugene McBride, Bill has lived all over the nation and has visited 44 states of the 48 contiguous United States of America. Bill McBride moved to California in 2003 And has been a resident of San Jose since 2009. A professsing Christian, Bill McBride slams religion as a contributor to much of the hatred in our modern world. McBride is a former Newspaper Reporter for small town newspapers in Pea Ridge, Arkansas; Miami and Bartlesville, Oklahoma; Harrison, Arkansas; and Clovis, New Mexico. He was graduated from New Mexico Highlands University at Las Vegas, New Mexico in August of 1986 with a BA in Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences. Bill's first college was in 1968 and 1969 when he was a student at Point Lookout, Missouri - outside of Branson. He graduated high school in May of 1968 from the Pea Ridge, Arkansas High School. After getting the idea for his book, Examining The Root of all EVIL, in the Spring of 2020 (shortly before the Covid-19 Lockdown), Bill McBride began interviewing various strangers in San Jose with this question. "What do you think is the ROOT of all EVIL?" About 50 people were interviewed, and almost everyone replied with the word, "Money!" Few knew the exact Bible Verse in which the Bible Writer specifically said it is "the love of money [which is] the root of all Kinds of Evil."