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Member Since: March 05, 2012

David Halpern


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The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America    by Thurston Clarke
Price: $7.99 USD. 112480 words. Agented by David Halpern on April 17, 2013. .
The bestselling definitive account of Robert Kennedy's exhilarating and tragic 1968 campaign for President.
Diary of a Dictator -- Ferdinand & Imelda: The Last Days of Camelot    by William C. Rempel
Price: $7.99 USD. 84510 words. Agented by David Halpern on March 7, 2013. .
The Marcoses were once “the Kennedys of Asia,” likened to America’s beautiful and charismatic Jackie and JFK. But Camelot in the Philippines vanished amid deadly political intrigues, sex scandals, lies, spies and bribes. Today, the long-secret Marcos diary opens a rare insider’s view of the dictator couple’s lust for power and their plot to kill democracy–history that reads like a soap opera.
Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America's Mexican Migrants    by Ted Conover
Price: $7.99 USD. 96640 words. Agented by David Halpern on December 20, 2012. .
To understand the lives of Mexicans who slip into the United States, Ted Conover accompanied them across deserts, hid in orange orchards, floated across the Rio Grande, and cut deals with traffickers in human sweat. This classic account, a harrowing vision of life among the American underclass, is an enduring contribution to our national debate on immigration.
Whiteout: Lost In Aspen    by Ted Conover
Price: $7.99 USD. 107760 words. Agented by David Halpern on December 14, 2012. .
Irreverent, poignant, and revealing, WHITEOUT is a meditation on wealth and the vain, glorious quest for paradise in Aspen, Colorado. Even as Ted Conover describes how he crashed Don Johnson’s Christmas party, or what it was like to sit in on the taping of John Denver’s holiday video, he is turning the lens of his craft upon himself and documenting his own seduction by the Aspen mystique.
Rolling Nowhere    by Ted Conover
Price: $7.99 USD. 99690 words. Agented by David Halpern on September 12, 2012. .
Ted Conover's first book takes the reader along on his dream trip—a hardscrabble netherworld built for freight, not people—in search of an America "where numbers live like men."
The Crisis    by David Harris
Price: $7.99 USD. 175760 words. Agented by David Halpern on May 21, 2012. .
THE CRISIS utilizes groundbreaking discussions with American leaders, as well as previously classified documents and interviews. Harris's gripping narrative races from Washington to Tehran to Paris to Panama, tracking a dying shah, a flailing Carter, an ascending Khomeini, the disastrous Desert One rescue attempt, and the lives of the Americans held in blindfolds amid a revolution like none other.


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