For as long as I can remember, my Dad was always at home wherever he was in the world. He moved our family around quite a bit while we were growing up. You might say that I was born "on the road" in Saint Louis. I went to school in Seoul, Milford, Honolulu and DC.
Whenever we moved, my mom always set up our home with her now famous twenty four hour move in ritual, not even taking the time to sleep until our new nest was safe, secure and up to her demanding standards. Meanwhile my Dad was usually off somewhere taking care of business, planting the American flag on some new outpost in a city that we couldn't always pronounce.
He was always adaptable and genuinely interested in his new home, friends and business associates no matter where we were. One thing that was always constant wherever we lived at the time my father was first and foremost an American patriot.
Lately I can tell he is disappointed with what's been happening in the manufacturing sector in the United States . He knows that the international playing field is far from "leveled" despite years of trying. He sees American manufacturing jobs going overseas and he knows that US manufacturing workers are not getting a fair chance at surviving and prospering.
He has seen things in his eighteen years on the front lines of our trade wars that not many have seen. He feels a responsibility to alert others to the scam. He knows that what he is proposing in his book is more "tilting at windmills." He could easily go over to the other side and continue perpetrating the China Scam. He's pretty good at it. Working with him on this project you can feel his passion for the subject matter that he shares with you in CHINA: We All Fall Down.
I'm glad that I could help with the layout, design and website for his new book CHINA: We All Fall Down.
Keith Kiska
About the Cover
For a book concerning the welfare of the American middle class way of life and the future of manufacturing jobs in this country - what better place to look for an artist for the cover art than a tattoo parlor? Dragon Moon is not just any tattoo parlor - and Tom Beasley is not just any tattooist.
When I saw Tom's work on the arm of a guy working out at a local gym in Glen Burnie, Maryland - I knew immediately I had found my artist.
Check out more of Tom's work for yourself on Dragoon Moon's website at www.dragon-moon.com .
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