Triumphs and Tragedies Audiobook Libro.fm

Hermosa Beach California in the mid1960s Sun surf and sand castles along The Strand to a soundtrack of Fun Fun Fun But the hangloose life of the locals was soon being drowned outby a social storm able to turn even the most perfect wave into a brutal riptide
How do you go from planning vacations and evaluating investments to planning prison visits and evaluating defense pleas How do you watch your surferchampion sons turn into drug lords Inmates How do you watch your entire family die one by one
Yet never stop fighting
What does it take to look in the mirror and search for the meaning of enabler Or face that youre sacrificing your own livelihood for Scotch To ride a pounding wave of triumphs and tragedies and paddle back for more
It takes a rare and special person Karl McMillen
Karl is Americas hard work ethic The guy Jefferson said will determine never to be idle Babe Ruths person who never gives up
His story opens with a panorama of early 20th century California a lastgasp look at the West before it was settled When entitlement meant you were entitled to work your tail off Karls success epitomizes that the cleanest hands in business are the ones that have smeared the most elbow grease Karl worked and the system worked He was said to have the Golden Touch
But systems break down As Americas youth got swept into the deep murkiness of drugs Karl was in over his head too He encountered something his work ethic and Golden Touch couldnt conquer Addiction
But he fought to apply his talents to this new subject Gathering data and analyzing treatments he uncovered so much
Triumphs and Tragedies explores the psychology of addiction through voices from the street It probes the essence of enabling and the value of rehabsuncommon concepts in the 60s It demonstrates how a perfect life can be traded for pain but how that pain can translate into a strong antidote against one of societys greatest ills