After Gardner’s talents were finally appreciated by the firm of Bear Stearns, his American Dream became real. The two also frequently bedded down in a public restroom. All his belongings in a shopping cart, Gardner sometimes slept with his young son at the office (apparently undiscovered by the night cleaning crew). He was recruited as a trainee at Dean Witter just around the time he became a homeless single father. Moving up in San Francisco, married and then divorced, he sold medical supplies.

He joined the Navy and became a medic (preparing badass Marines for proctology), and a proficient lab technician. Meanwhile, at the behest of Moms, he developed a fondness for reading. His heroes were Miles Davis, James Brown and Muhammad Ali. Chris did “the dozens” with the homies, boosted a bit and in the course of youthful adventure was raped. When beautiful, evanescent Moms was there, Chris also had to deal with Freddie “I ain’t your goddamn daddy!” Triplett, one of the meanest stepfathers in recent literature. He was fatherless, and his adored mother wasn’t always around once, as a child, he spied her at a family funeral accompanied by a prison guard. Young-rags-to-mature-riches memoir by broker and motivational speaker Gardner.īorn and raised in the Milwaukee ghetto, the author pulled himself up from considerable disadvantage. Despite her intimate view, Haag is careful not to exploit the Kennedy clan instead, she simply returns them to human form.Īn honest, heartfelt account of love, politics and tragedy. Equally intriguing are the author’s romanticized depictions of Jackie Onassis, the widow who could often be spotted riding her bicycle along the trails of Martha's Vineyard, “her head kerchiefed,” searching the fields for birds. She recalled the “paghetti he made with soy sauce” and “eaping on the benches outside the Museum of Natural History”-both seemingly innocuous details, yet they offer a new look at an old figure. Haag provides minute details that manage to humanize JFK Jr. It will ground you.” It was sound advice, particularly from the woman JFK Jr. that if he forgot his lines, he need only, “top, take a breath, and look into my eyes. In a revealing conversation, a young Haag informed JFK Jr. After a series of missed connections and serendipitous run-ins, the pair finally fell into sync, two young actors playing opposite one another in a play. are spellbinding, setting the stage for the romance soon to come. Her sepia-toned recounting of evenings shared with an adolescent JFK Jr. After nine years cloistered in Catholic school, the author was suddenly propelled into the glitzy world of upper-crust New York.

In actress Haag's debut memoir, readers gets a front-row seat to her on-again/off-again love affair with JFK Jr., President Kennedy's eldest son. Kennedy Jr.’s former love offers glimpses into the last vestiges of Camelot.

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