<p>Jewish parents, the war, the German occupation, the round up of Jews, the risk of being sent to a concentration camp, and then Daniel&rsquo;s exile to a small village in the center of France. The young man&rsquo;s return to a newly liberated Paris, an addiction to poker, private Latin lessons with Einstein&rsquo;s best friend&hellip; his unusual tour of duty during the Algerian War&hellip; his tryst with a painter who encourages him to emigrate to America.</p>

<p>Early years in New York City bohemia, honing his skills at Lee Strasberg&rsquo;s Actors Studio, a poetry recital tour in major US universities&hellip; an affair with a black jazz singer and coping with the hardships of miscegenation.</p>

<p>He co-hosts a popular hit parade show with one of WMCA&rsquo;s Good Guys before becoming a foreign correspondent, covering the Cold War, the Johnson-Kosygin summit meeting, the race riots, the Apollo flights, the tumultuous conventions in Chicago and Miami where he is beaten and left for dead in the ghetto.</p>

<p>Brando, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Bardot, Sammy Davis Jr., Dali, Rockefeller, de Gaulle, RFK, are some of the people he interviews, sometimes befriends, as a journalist.</p>

<p>This is the story of a man lucky enough to have had an orchestra seat to the major historical events that shaped the second part of the twentieth century.</p>