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THE ACCIDENTAL ANARCHIST is the true story of Jacob Marateck who, by the time he was 25-years old, had been sentenced to death three times in the early 1900s in Russia -- and lived to tell about it. That was when he decided to overthrow the Czar. The book is based on Marateck's diaries and maintains his unique voice that was filled with humor and optimism despite poverty, starvation, and the horrors of war. His story is proof that it is not only the circumstances of our lives that determine who we are, but rather the way we choose to interpret them that defines our personalities and, to some extent, our destinies.

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This story is told by Bryna Kranzler, the granddaughter of Jacob Marateck. Ms. Kranzler's captivating writing technique envelops the reader with Marateck's magnetic personality. These conversations, events that should have been muddied by the ravages of time and history, are rewritten with incredible detail and exquisite narrative that pushes the reader ever-onward, hanging upon baited breath with each sentence. Yet between Marateck's notes and Ms. Kranzler's consistent ability to wrap it into moving prose, this memoir reads much more like a thrilling novel. In some cases, truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Marateck bares his heart through his carefully detailed notes. They become a symphony representing a brilliant, singularly valiant human life enveloped within the loving care of the author's loving dedication. The Accidental Anarchist begins with a powerful allegro of youth, in which Marateck throws his life about in a careless affront to its sacred value. --New York Journal of Books It is somewhat of a miracle that this book even exists. Written from the more than one hundred year old diaries of her grandfather, Bryna Kranzler has captured an amazing story of survival, certain but somehow avoidable death, dire conditions of climate, hunger on the verge of starvation, all taken with humor and conviction... From the diaries of a man who took the time to write an impossible history, all true, exciting and devastating. --Dick Lofton, Endpaper Review ...The Accidental Anarchist is told from Jacob's point of view, and his dry wit is evident throughout, leaving the reader with a sense of optimism even amid war, starvation, and imprisonment... --ForeWord Review The Accidental Anarchist is a profound testament to the power of faith, and to the continued survival of the Jewish people. --Elie Wiesel The Accidental Anarchist ... reads and feels like a great novel... [N]o Hollywood screenwriter could ever invent such an extraordinary tale... --Robert Avrech, Emmy Award-winning screenwriter It is somewhat of a miracle that this book even exists. Written from the more than one hundred year old diaries of her grandfather, Bryna Kranzler has captured an amazing story of survival, certain but somehow avoidable death, dire conditions of climate, hunger on the verge of starvation, all taken with humor and conviction... From the diaries of a man who took the time to write an impossible history, all true, exciting and devastating. --Dick Lofton, Endpaper Review ...The Accidental Anarchist is told from Jacob's point of view, and his dry wit is evident throughout, leaving the reader with a sense of optimism even amid war, starvation, and imprisonment... --ForeWord Review

""This story is told by Bryna Kranzler, the granddaughter of Jacob Marateck. Ms. Kranzler's captivating writing technique envelops the reader with Marateck's magnetic personality. ""These conversations, events that should have been muddied by the ravages of time and history, are rewritten with incredible detail and exquisite narrative that pushes the reader ever-onward, hanging upon baited breath with each sentence. Yet between Marateck's notes and Ms. Kranzler's consistent ability to wrap it into moving prose, this memoir reads much more like a thrilling novel. In some cases, truth is indeed stranger than fiction. ""Marateck bares his heart through his carefully detailed notes. They become a symphony representing a brilliant, singularly valiant human life enveloped within the loving care of the author's loving dedication. The Accidental Anarchist begins with a powerful allegro of youth, in which Marateck throws his life about in a careless affront to its sacred value."" --New York Journal of Books ""It is somewhat of a miracle that this book even exists. Written from the more than one hundred year old diaries of her grandfather, Bryna Kranzler has captured an amazing story of survival, certain but somehow avoidable death, dire conditions of climate, hunger on the verge of starvation, all taken with humor and conviction... ""From the diaries of a man who took the time to write an impossible history, all true, exciting and devastating."" --Dick Lofton, Endpaper Review ""...The Accidental Anarchist is told from Jacob's point of view, and his dry wit is evident throughout, leaving the reader with a sense of optimism even amid war, starvation, and imprisonment..."" --ForeWord Review ""The Accidental Anarchist is a profound testament to the power of faith, and to the continued survival of the Jewish people."" --Elie Wiesel ""The Accidental Anarchist"" ... reads and feels like a great novel... [N]o Hollywood screenwriter could ever invent such an extraordinary tale..."" --Robert Avrech, Emmy Award-winning screenwriter ""It is somewhat of a miracle that this book even exists. Written from the more than one hundred year old diaries of her grandfather, Bryna Kranzler has captured an amazing story of survival, certain but somehow avoidable death, dire conditions of climate, hunger on the verge of starvation, all taken with humor and conviction... ""From the diaries of a man who took the time to write an impossible history, all true, exciting and devastating."" --Dick Lofton, Endpaper Review ""...The Accidental Anarchist is told from Jacob's point of view, and his dry wit is evident throughout, leaving the reader with a sense of optimism even amid war, starvation, and imprisonment..."" --ForeWord Review

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Bryna Kranzler is a graduate of Barnard College where she studied playwriting and received the Helen Prince Memorial Prize for Dramatic Composition. Her first play was a finalist for the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Competition. Her first book, The Accidental Anarchist, is the winner of multiple awards, including the Sharp Writ Book Award for General Non-Fiction, the Readers Favorite Award for Historical/Cultural Non-Fiction, the International Book Award, and National Indie Excellence Award for a Historical Biography, and the USA Best Books Award for a Historical Biography. Bryna earned an MBA from Yale School of Organization and Management and spent 15 years in marketing for health-care, high tech, and consumer products companies before returning to writing.

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