In 1960, at the age of twenty-seven, the author, Sidney B. Silverman, started his own law practice. He began by tackling corporate giants and never stopped until he retired in 2001. He was an aggressive, street-smart trial lawyer.

Upon his retirement, Silverman enrolled in graduate school at Columbia University. Concentrating in philosophy, he received a master's degree in 2007. He was as competitive in the classroom as he was in the courtroom.

After graduating he looked for another challenge. He had played chess for many years. Now he wanted to play in tournaments and become a chess master. Although he tried hard to become an expert chess player, he failed.

"A Happy Life" chronicles Silverman's adventures, before, during and after his long and successful career.

What pieces of wisdom can he share that will help readers to find their best, most successful retirement years? Read on.

As a child, Henry Wojecoski develops an insatiable appetite for money while working with his plumber father in a working class town near the wealthy village of Southampton, New York. After glimpsing the good life, the street-smart Henry decides that one day good fortune will be his too. Fate and a lofty dream soon lead Henry to nurture a healthy addiction to money. Henry has always been taught to count his blessings, but he knows he will never follow in his father's footsteps. At fourteen, he starts his own company with five employees, but three years later, Wojo Services is broke. Not deterred by failure, Henry shuns college, joins the marines, and fights in Vietnam. When he finally returns home-alive but emotionally shattered-Henry becomes the office boy at an accounting firm. Little does he know that he has just taken the first step down a path into the arcane worlds of high finance and politics. As Henry's life epitomizes the excesses and financially crazed period at the turn of the twenty-first century, he soon discovers that the instruments he has developed to create his own personal wealth have also helped to create the greatest recession ever known to man.

After a career of bad behavior, Peter Morrissey is finally caught. This street-smart, highly-esteemed New York City divorce lawyer, has been hitting on his women clients for decades, but no one has complained ... until now. The Bar Association is pursuing an action against him on behalf of a woman who says she was coerced, and his career and his reputation are on the line. What really happened on the night in question? Is Morrissey a sex addict, or just a man who likes women too much for his own good? Morrissey and his lawyer scramble to put on a defense that will save him, and the reader is swept into the take-no-prisoners world of high-net-worth divorces and divorce lawyers, where ethics and morals are in very short supply. In this courtroom thriller, expert witnesses shine a light on the dark world of sex addiction and violence against women, and explore the never-ending battle of the sexes. Fans of legal dramas will be fascinated by this fictional account of a man accused of committing a transgression that's forbidden by every bar association in the country. The story of Peter Morrissey's rise and fall raises important legal questions and eternal questions about men, women, sex, and marriage.

As a child, Henry Wojecoski develops an insatiable appetite for money while working with his plumber father in a working class town near the wealthy village of Southampton, New York. After glimpsing the good life, the street-smart Henry decides that one day good fortune will be his too. Fate and a lofty dream soon lead Henry to nurture a healthy addiction to money. Henry has always been taught to count his blessings, but he knows he will never follow in his father's footsteps. At fourteen, he starts his own company with five employees, but three years later, Wojo Services is broke. Not deterred by failure, Henry shuns college, joins the marines, and fights in Vietnam. When he finally returns home-alive but emotionally shattered-Henry becomes the office boy at an accounting firm. Little does he know that he has just taken the first step down a path into the arcane worlds of high finance and politics. As Henry's life epitomizes the excesses and financially crazed period at the turn of the twenty-first century, he soon discovers that the instruments he has developed to create his own personal wealth have also helped to create the greatest recession ever known to man.

In 1960, at the age of twenty-seven, the author, Sidney B. Silverman, started his own law practice. He began by tackling corporate giants and never stopped until he retired in 2001. He was an aggressive, street-smart trial lawyer.

Upon his retirement, Silverman enrolled in graduate school at Columbia University. Concentrating in philosophy, he received a master's degree in 2007. He was as competitive in the classroom as he was in the courtroom.

After graduating he looked for another challenge. He had played chess for many years. Now he wanted to play in tournaments and become a chess master. Although he tried hard to become an expert chess player, he failed.

"A Happy Life" chronicles Silverman's adventures, before, during and after his long and successful career.

What pieces of wisdom can he share that will help readers to find their best, most successful retirement years? Read on.