{"product_id":"karmic-winds-reflections-from-the-smartest-guy-in-hollywood-9781644285626","title":"Karmic Winds: Reflections from the Smartest Guy in Hollywood","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKARMIC WINDS\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir of power, collapse, and reckoning by Peter M. Hoffman, a Yale-trained lawyer and Hollywood insider who once stood at the center of the independent film boom and later found himself stripped of status, freedom, and certainty.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs president of Carolco Pictures, Hoffman helped steer an era-defining slate that included \u003ci\u003eTerminator 2\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBasic Instinct\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRambo\u003c\/i\u003e, navigating a world of massive egos, creative brilliance, and financial brinkmanship. But ambition has its cost. After the industry turns, legal battles mount, and a federal conviction leads to imprisonment, Hoffman is forced into a confrontation far more exacting than any boardroom negotiation: a reckoning with his own choices, illusions, and moral blind spots. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet partly within the quiet, disorienting confines of Terminal Island federal prison, \u003ci\u003eKarmic Winds\u003c\/i\u003e traces a journey through humiliation and loss toward clarity and acceptance. Drawing on philosophy, Buddhism, and a lifelong search for meaning, Hoffman examines the nature of justice, the seductions of power, and the invisible forces--personal and systemic--that shape our lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Neither a tell-all nor a plea for absolution, \u003ci\u003eKarmic Winds\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply reflective account of success and failure, told with intellectual rigor and emotional restraint. It is a story of what remains when the titles disappear, the noise falls away, and one is left alone with the self...and the winds that carried them there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rare Bird Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644285626\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.11h x 6.01w x 1.31d","brand":"Peter M. Hoffman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52801264255157,"sku":"9781644285626","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/karmic-winds-reflections-from-the-smartest-guy-in-hollywood-9781644285626","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}