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Life on a Roller Coaster

Life on a Roller Coaster

Ralph G. Mendoza, G. Mendoza

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Publisher Price: $32.95

ISBN10: 1440165157
ISBN13: 9781440165153
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: Oct 6 2009
Pages: 332
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
From a child in turmoil to a man at peace, this emotional memoir presents the often helter-skelter life of author Ralph G. Mendoza. From the sorrowful, to the hurtful, and the unfair to the pleasurable, humorous, and enjoyable, Life on a Roller Coaster narrates Mendoza's sixty-five-year journey.

The account begins with his earliest memories growing up in an East Los Angeles ghetto, attending more than fifty schools between first grade and high school. For a time, his best friends were bookies and hoodlums. In Life on a Roller Coaster, Mendoza describes the many chapters in his life which include a stint in the United States Air Force, a long career with the Los Angeles Fire Department, and his experiences as a professional gambler in Las Vegas. He tells about the good and the bad-of his flight on Air Force One and meeting President Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretary of State Dean Rusk and of his seventeen-year marriage and subsequent divorce.

A riveting narrative, Life on a Roller Coaster recounts Mendoza's meager beginnings in squalor to his now tranquil existence in Nevada. It's a testament of one man's determination to turn his dreams into reality.

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