American Rhapsody (58 page)

JOE ESZTERHAS

American Rhapsody

Joe Eszterhas was born in Hungary, spent his first six years in Austrian refugee camps, and came to the United States in 1950. He lives in Point Dume, California, with his wife, Naomi, and their four children. He has two grown children from his first marriage.

He has been awarded the Emanuel Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award for work dedicated to the memory of the holocaust in Hungary. He has also won awards for attending every one of his son's Little League games and for writing
Showgirls
(the Hollywood Women's Press Association's Sour Apple Award).

FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, FEBRUARY 2001

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All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2000.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Eszterhas, Joe
American rhapsody / Joe Eszterhas.
p. cm.
1. Clinton, Bill, 1946—.  2. Clinton, Bill, 1946—Friends and associates.  3. Eszterhas, Joe— Political and social views.  4. Political culture—United States—History—20th century.  5. Political corruption—United States—History—20th century.  6. Politicians—United States—Biography.  7. Celebrities— United States—Biography.  8. National characteristics, American.  9. United States—Politics and government—1993—. 10. United States—Moral conditions—20th century.
E886.2.E89 2000
973.929—dc21
00-106190
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