Author: Jerry Weintraub with Rich Cohen
Publisher: Twelve (Hachette Book Group)

When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead

Newman Communications brought Jerry Weintraub’s  story to life  with a book publicity tour that had him speaking with national  radio networks including Westwood One, Talk America, and the USA Radio Networks.  Jerry also spoke to major stations such as WBZ in Boston, WCBS in New York, and KABC in Los Angeles as well as to numerous local stations across the country.

In WHEN I STOP TALKING, YOU’LL KNOW I’M DEAD, written with Rich Cohen, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, we follow entertainment titan Jerry Weintraub from his first great success at age twenty-six with Elvis Presley, whom he took on the road with the help of Colonel Tom Parker, to immortal days with Sinatra, and his crowning hits as a movie producer, starting with Robert Altman’s Nashville, continuing with Diner, Oh, God!, and The Karate Kid series, among others, and summiting with Steven Soderbergh and Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen, which together earned well over a billion dollars worldwide.

About The Book

Weintraub shepherds us from the poker tables of Palm Springs (the games went on for days) to the power rooms of Hollywood, and from the halls of the White House to Red Square in Moscow and the Great Palace in Beijing—all the while counseling potentates, poets, and kings, with clients and confidants like Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, John Denver, Bobby Fischer, George H. W. Bush, Armand Hammer, George Clooney, Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon . . . the list goes on.

With wit, wisdom, and the cool confidence that has colored his remarkable career, Weintraub chronicles a quintessentially American journey, one marked by luck, love, and improvisation. The stories he tells and the lessons we learn are essential, not just for those who love movies and music, but for businessmen, entrepreneurs, artists . . . for everyone.

About The Author:

JERRY WEINTRAUB has spent more than five decades in show business, in the process earning a reputation as one of the savviest negotiators, smartest producers, and shrewdest film investors of our time. He has been praised and honored for his philanthropic work and, as UNICEF’s Man of the Year, was presented the organization’s Danny Kaye Humanitarian Award.

RICH COHEN, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone, is the author of five books, including the bestsellers Tough Jews, The Avengers, and Israel Is Real.

Why I Stayed - Gayle Haggard

Newman Communications is leading a national radio book publicity tour for Gayle Haggard’s new book titled,  Why I Stayed: The Choices I Made in My Darkest Hour. With hits including stations like the Thom Hartmann Program and WMUZ-FM Detroit, this publicity tour is off to a great start

Imagine this lead line being read on your television. Imagine the shock and disbelief that yet another religious leader has succumbed to immoral behavior. Now imagine that leader is your beloved husband of 28 years.

Gayle Haggard was certainly surprised to hear the accusations of her husband Ted’s alleged ‘sexual immorality,’ but she was truly ashamed to discover that the allegations were not entirely untrue.

In the firestorm of media coverage and public humiliation, Gayle was left questioning the future. What would happen to her 28-year marriage? How would this affect their five children? What would become of the church and ministry she and Ted had lovingly devoted themselves to for the last 22 years? Did she really know her own husband?

The decisions Gayle made during those dark days eventually led to the healing of her marriage, family and her own broken heart. In Why I Stayed: The Choices I Made in My Darkest Hour (Jan. 26, 2010/Tyndale), Gayle chronicles her emotional journey and how she survived her severest test.

The Snowball - Warren Buffet

In this startlingly frank account of Buffett’s life, Author, Alice Schroeder, a former managing director at Morgan Stanley—and hand picked by Buffett to be his biographer—strips away the mystery that has long cloaked the word’s richest man to reveal a life and fortune erected around lucid and inspired business vision and unimaginable personal complexity. In a book that is dominated by unstinting descriptions of Buffett’s appetites—for profit, women (particularly nurturing maternal types), food (Buffett maintained his and his family’s weight by “dangling money”)—it is refreshing that Schroeder keeps her tone free of judgment or awe; Buffett’s plain-speaking suffuses the book and renders his public and private successes and failures wonderfully human and universal. Schroeder’s sections detailing the genesis of Buffett’s investment strategy, his early mentoring by Benjamin Graham (who imparted the memorable “cigar butt” scheme: purchasing discarded stocks and taking a final puff). Inspiring managerial advice abounds and competes with gossipy tidbits (the married Buffett’s very public relationship with Washington Post editor Katherine Graham) in this rich, surprisingly affecting biography

Kathy Griffin

Kathy Griffin thinks that she is only a D-List celebrity, but with the release of her new book OFFICIAL BOOK CLUB SELECTION: A MEMOIR ACCORDING TO KATHY GRIFFIN, she will soon shoot to A-List stardom! Kathy Griffin has officially selected Newman Communications to help her reach superstar status with a radio media tour promoting this hilarious, yet raw and real story of her life (with the help of Oprah too…are you listening Miss O?). With interviews on some of the biggest stations across the nation, such as WBMX-FM in Boston, The Bob & Sheri Radio Network, and KIOI-FM in San Francisco, Kathy sure got her story out there!

In OFFICIAL BOOK CLUB SELECTION, the two-time Emmy winner & Grammy nominee is unplugged, uncensored, and unafraid to dish about what really happens on the road, away from the cameras, and at the star party after the show. You’ve seen her life today on the Bravo reality show KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST, but now take a glimpse at Kathy before she became the loud-mouthed, cynical (and sometimes envelope pushing) comedian she is today!

The book opens up about everything, from growing up in a dysfunctional family, to her love affair with junk food, to her well-publicized plastic surgeries (this section complete with pictures that Kathy describes as “something you would see on CSI”), her failed marriage as well as her relationship with Apple founder, Steve Wozniak. She leaves no topic off-limits!

Writing with her trademark wit, the feisty red-headed comedian is refreshingly candid, unflinchingly honest, and full of candid “did she really say that?” moments in OFFICIAL BOOK CLUB SELECTION. This book will make you laugh until you cry, or just pee a little bit!

Beyond the status updates, personal pokes, and party photos, ACCIDENTIAL BILLIONAIRES shows the dramatic history behind today’s largest social network.

What many people do not realize is that the dawn of Facebook started with two nerdy Harvard friends named Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin.  Sick of being social disasters they hoped their new idea would help them meet girls and become sexually successful.  Along with their original goals, they became Harvard’s most famous contemporary duo and revolutionized social communication.

Throughout Facebook’s progressive nature both Mark and Edurano drew further apart from one another.  A conflict of ideas caused their friendship and lucrative earnings to be split and dealt with between two different sides of lawyers.

Mezrich’s overall splendid investigating tells the vivid story of Facebook, along with the destructive and hateful friendship it helped produce.

Similar to BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE, which was later made into the movie 21 with Jim Sturgess and Kate Bosworth, Ben Mezrich’s newest book is in line to hit the big screen and be produced by Kevin Spacey.

The Longest Trip Home

New York Times best selling author John Grogan is heading home.  Making the trip with him will be publicity firm Newman Communications.  The same author who brought you the heartfelt story of Marley and Me is now releasing his coming of age memoir The Longest Trip Home in paperback.

Grogan spent his early years mischievously exploring his youthful imagination and his suburban community outside of Detroit. Most of his choices and actions contradicted the wishes of his piously Catholic parents.  Needless to say, John did not care.  His efforts to succeed with girls and pleasure his forbidden desires were much more important.  

Through a variety of emotions The Longest Trip Home passionately details the relationship between a parent and child.  Filled with tears and laughter it is a book that can relate to any son, daughter, or parent.  Whether it is a subconscious effort or not, we often forget those who helped us find our way.  Aside from all the drama that may affect a parent/child relationship, Grogan reminds us that both are forever bonded no matter what.

The Longest Trip Home was one cross country tour Newman Communications did not want to miss.  Representing an author like John Grogan is always an enjoyable voyage that helps us remember what life is all about.