Joe, the son of a mobster, watches his father s mob loyalty force his family into a life of secrecy and deceit. As he struggles to avoid becoming his father, Joe discovers his father s influence is hard to ignore. The physical and emotional abuse Joe endured leaves him unable to express love for his own family. From his childhood in Brooklyn during the Depression, to his involvement in the Italian Mafia, and then his later foray into politics, the reader experiences one man s struggle to overcome his past.

"Intervention: Anything But My Own Skin" is a brutally honest account of a young man's addiction beginning with a drug and alcohol intervention performed by the author's parents, an intervention team, and a pair of handcuffs. When the author's final escape attempt from the intervention turns out unsuccessful, he gives in and gets on a plane to a wilderness treatment center in the middle of Montana. Through out the story, the author, Chad unveils the reasons he fell into the dark world of addiction by flashing back to old drug and alcohol stories. However, the treatment center is where the...