WINNER OF 15 LITERARY AWARDS
AMSTERDAM EXPOSED
AN AMERICAN'S JOURNEY INTO THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT
By David Wienir | De Wallen Press
Before becoming a lawyer, he was a professional river rafting guide, a speechwriter in the British House of Commons, and a host of Estonia Today on Estonia National Radio. He is also a founder and the first musical director of the Oxford Alternotives, Oxford University’s oldest a cappella close harmony group. He was educated at Columbia, Oxford, The LSE, Berkeley Law, and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and is married to Dr. Dina, a pioneer of the medical cannabis movement and the inspiration for the Nancy Botwin character in the show Weeds. They live in West Hollywood with their teacup Brazilian Yorkie named Lola.
David Wienir is Assistant General Counsel at HarperCollins and Senior Director of Business Affairs at HarperCollins Productions. He is also an entertainment law instructor at UCLA Extension. Previously, he was a business affairs executive for over a decade at United Talent Agency practiced law at two of the top entertainment law firms where he represented clients such as Steven Spielberg and Madonna. This is his fourth book. Previous books include Last Time: Labour’s Lessons from the Sixties (co-authored with a Member of Parliament at the age of 23), The Diversity Hoax: Law Students Report from Berkeley (afterword by Dennis Prager), and Making It on Broadway: Actors’ Tales of Climbing to the Top (foreword by Jason Alexander).