John Truman Wolfe Libri

John C. Wolfe had it all-a wife, two wonderful kids, a great house, and a high-paying job as the Chief Speechwriter for New York governor George E. Pataki. But for John, none of those things could stop him from drinking, and sometimes the pressure made it worse. First, he wrote better with a few drinks in him, then his drinking escalated and he couldn't write without multiple drinks. His drinking steadily grew worse, until his family convinced him to give rehab a try. That only ended with John spiraling deeper into alcoholism. Come with John on his journey, from the New York governor's office of the late 1990s, to the tragedy of 9/11, then follow him out of the governor's office through the dark days of alternating rehab and relapses, to when something finally changed for him...and he found his day of clarity.

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Fifty-nine homeless men are living in Central Park in a hidden city with its own boundaries, laws and governance. The "Misfits" of Misfit City live in comfortable, discreet "abodes" inconspicuously carved into the terrain. Misfit City (which occupies twenty of Central Park's 840 acres) is morally-quarantined from the corrosive influences of power, greed and plutocracy. That seems to change one day when a drifter wanders into Misfit City and dies of a heroin overdose. He is brought back to life by paramedics - a miracle that inspires Granger, the one Misfit who witnessed it, to go searching for life's deeper meaning on, of all places, the streets of Manhattan's Upper East Side. He writes philosophical panhandling signs -- and quickly learns that, the more arrogant and self-centered his signs are, the more money he earns. The Park Avenue crowd nurtures his thinking. As time goes on, Granger changes from a mild-mannered people-pleaser to a menace. He gets mouthy and defiant with his Mentor, Virgil, and even picks a fight with a local politician Every day for months, he brings a little bit of what he's learned on the streets of Manhattan back to Misfit City. After fifteen years of relative harmony in Misfit City, there's a mysterious rash of infighting, quarreling and suspicious deaths. One shocking development leads to another and, eventually, to Misfit City's breaking point.