Fame Junkies The Hidden Truths Behind America's Favorite Addiction

Born in 1975 in Buffalo, New York, JAKE HALPERN attended Yale University. He has written for the New Republic, Commonweal, the Jerusalem Report, and other magazines. Unlike the people in this book, he comes from a family with a long tradition of leaving places: his great-grandmother immigrated to America, returned home to Hungary, then immigrated to America once again. His grandfather was so desperate to get out of New York that he took a job chipping paint on a giant freighter bound for California via the Panama Canal. Jake Halpern has lived in New Haven, Prague, London, Tel Aviv, Washington, D.C., and India. For now, he lives in New Haven, CT.Halpern, Jake is the author of 'Fame Junkies The Hidden Truths Behind America's Favorite Addiction', published 2007 under ISBN 9780618453696 and ISBN 0618453695.