I read a book about John Dos Passos and according to
The book once radical-communist
John ended up in the Hollywood Hills living off investments
And reading the
Wall Street Journal
This seems to happen all too often
What hardly ever happens is
A man going from being a young conservative to becoming an
John Dos Passos  was an American novelist who started out as a radical leftist but ended up swinging far to the right, campaigning for Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater in the 1960s. 

Having the flu and with nothing else to do