Picnic at the Iron Curtain : Free Kindle eBook

Editor's Note: This is a an amazing account of major historical events, including events in Budapest, Chernoble, and more, that shows an interesting snapshot of the lives of everyday people.

It's full of facts, but is still adventurously fun and warm!

Book Description: The Berlin Wall is about to fall and crossing the Iron Curtain to the West means risking it all. This is a memoir from a journalist, Susan Viets, reporting from 1988 Communist Hungary.

Readers who like 17 Cents and a Dream will like MY PRISON WITHOUT BARS.

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This book is free on 2/16-2/17.

Susan Viets

   

Susan Viets lives in Toronto with her husband. She was a reporter for the Guardian, the Independent, and BBC World.

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KLAN: Killing America (Free Kindle eBook)

A chilling history of the life and death of the Klu Klux Klan.

 The strife and horrors of the Civil War in America were raw with the wounds of the war lasting for decades; and affecting those who lived in both the North and the South. As the nation struggled to find unity, the forces of darkness and of those who wished to rule through intimidation and terror, spread their wicked ways under the cover of white sheets.

This is the story of the Ku Klux Klan and their chief brand: Lynchings, as told in the original newspaper stories from journals across the nation. Some are brief, telling only of a single attack while others are more comprehensive and detailed, telling the story with the inclusion of complex and emotional occurrences.
The attempt of the KKK to cloak the power of control over others with fear and violence is explained in some of these news stories. The chief advocate and leader of the Klan was interviewed by reporters and allowed fair access to give his side of the story. The heroism of various groups such as the NAACP and others who risked their lives standing up to thugs and criminals is also noted, as well as the words of those individuals and leaders who fought to eliminate the influence of the Ku Klux Klan.

While the KKK had as much right as any group to demonstrate and articulate their cause, the deceits and criminal actions employed by them separated their group from the legal actions of others.
For readers in the 21st Century who know little of the life and death of the KKK, the admonition to understand and know history in order to avoid repeating it, should be considered. Therefore, it is in that hope that this book has been prepared.

WARNING: Authentic descriptions are vivid and brutal and the racially charged language of this historic news reports and commentary has not been modified. This material is for adults and parental guidance is appropriate..

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Ken Rossignol

  

In my own work in operating a weekly newspaper I had several brushes with Klan activity in Southern Maryland, however the connection with Klan-like actions and those who attempted to block by newspaper from reaching its reader was included in the opinion reached by the United States Court of Appeals.
In 2003, the Fourth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals ruled in my Civil Rights case brought under the 1983 Civil Rights Act, in my favor. The case is Rossignol v. Voorhaar
In this case a Sheriff, six deputies and a state's attorney candidate conspired and carried out a plan to remove all available copies of my newspaper from newsstands the night before Election Day in order to prevent voters from reading critical articles prior to voting.

The defendants appealed to the Supreme Court which turned down their appeal. The case was pursued by my attorneys Levine, Sullivan, Koch & Shultz of Washington, D.C.  The lead counsel on the case were Ashley Kissinger and Seth Berlin with Alice Neff Lucan assisting. The readers, advertisers and supporters of the newspaper along with my family made it possible for me to sustain six long years of litigation in order to protect the First Amendment rights of us all.

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Tattoo: A Poorly Researched History (Free Kindle eBook)

A detailed examination of the history of the art of tattoo!

Although tattoos have become a powerful cultural force, more popular than the iPad, Starbucks, and many would argue, William Shatner, its evolution is shrouded in myth, distortion, and innuendo.

TATTOO: A Poorly Researched History is a detailed examination of the history of the art of tattoo. Lazily researched and fully illustrated, the book debunks scientists’ flimsy theories about its Paleolithic-era origins, casually dismisses claims of its existence in ancient Egypt, and relying on little more than hearsay, credits the invention of the small-of-the-back tattoo in 1976 to a redneck named Ricky White.

From valuable advice on how to pick your first tattoo, the benefits of bypassing professional artists in favor of do-it-yourself tattoos, to choosing the right design before beginning a long prison sentence, TATTOO: A Poorly Researched History sets the record straight.

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Steve Reynolds

  

Steve Reynolds is a writer, poet, award-winning photographer, bon vivant, and tattoo historian whose dedication to the art of tattoo has taken him around the world. Born in 1965 outside of Bogota, Colombia, to an industrialist father and socialist mother, Mr. Reynolds’s early childhood in a midscale Boston suburb was one of relative privilege and leisure.

Upon earning a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Central Florida, young “Stevie Pops” (as his close friends called him) ignored the pleas of his parents to take over the family haberdashery and instead became a freelance vagabond. In 1990, at age twenty-five, a chance meeting with a local tattoo artist sparked a love affair with the craft that continues to this day. Mr. Reynolds's first book, Tattoo Genitalia, sold slightly better than expected.

A black-and-white photographic exhibit, Interstate Rest Stops, was displayed at Philadelphia’s Burney Museum of Art for a record nine months. His one-man off-Broadway show Tattoo/Tat-Me won him the prestigious Stage Left Award and a lunch date with Stanley Tucci. A book of poetry, titled I’m Smarter than You: Poems of Love, is scheduled to be released in the spring of 2017.

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Three Free History and Folklore eBooks for Kindle

There are two historical biographies and one book of folklore in this little bunch of three FREE eBooks for Kindle!

'The Accidental Anarchist' is free on 12/6. 'Love, Carry My Bags' is free 12/6-12/8. 'The Reluctant Belsnickel of Opelt's Wood' is free 12/6-12/7.

Four Free History eBooks for Kindle

Brush up on your History! These four history eBooks are all FREE on Kindle!

 

'Angry Mobs and Founding Fathers' , 'The Path to Tyranny' , 'A Different Lifetime' , and 'Tempest at Dawn' are free on 11/28.