James M. Joiner was born in Danvers and raised in Historic Salem, Massachusetts. "I was very lucky to have spent my childhood on Gallows Hill and a child of the streets in mid 1960s Salem. I roamed all the historic sites routinely as they were all free in those days," he says. He attended the Essex Agricultural Institute and graduated from high school, after which he enlisted in the Air Force where he joined the military police. Upon his discharge he went back to farming but soon realized that he needed to do more to support his growing family –Now Divorced with 4 sons 3 in the military by then he had a wife and three children – so he went back to school and earned a B.S. in accounting. Working a third-shift job so that he could attend college full time during the day, he found himself challenged by what he was seeing and learning at the Salem State Teachers College (now Salem University). Jim’s first book, "Life In The Trenches Of American Society: How to Survive 21st Century Society” started him on a journey that currently encompasses seven books, two must read manuscripts, a Manifesto to the World, and a Blog. Jim lives and writes in Massachusetts.
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