Triumphs and Tragedies PDF

Hermosa Beach, California, in the mid-1960s. Sun, surf, swanky sand castles along The Strand, and a soundtrack of Fun, Fun, Fun. But the hang-loose life of the locals would soon be drowned out and painted black. The social storm brewing could turn even the most perfect wave into a brutal riptide.
How do you go from planning exotic family vacations and evaluating real estate investments to planning prison visits and evaluating rehab centers and criminal defense pleas? How do you watch your surfer-champion sons transform into drug lords? Inmates? How do you watch your entire family die, one by one?
And yet never stop fighting.
What does it take to look in the mirror and search for the meaning of enabler? To face that youre sacrificing your own livelihood for Scotch? To ride a sheer, pounding wave of triumphs and tragedies, and then pull out and paddle back for more?
It takes a rare and special person: Karl McMillen.
Karl McMillen is Americas hard work ethic. Hes the guy Thomas Jefferson said will determine never to be idle. Babe Ruths person who never gives up.
Triumphs and Tragedies opens with a feral panorama of early twentieth century California

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