The Ones They Left Behind - Paperback

by Antonio Elmaleh (Author)

The Ones They Left Behind is a sweeping and engrossing historically accurate account of post-Civil War America told through the eyes of one man, Harriman Hickenlooper, a Civil War veteran, who singlehandedly begins to heal both the wounds of a country, bitter and divided by war, and his own heartbreak by recreating Sherman's March to the Sea. This time, instead of carrying a gun, Harriman will carry a flag. Instead of marching for war, he will march for peace. His journey is fraught with danger, pain, and healing -- not only for himself, but for an entire nation. The Ones They Left Behind is a story every American needs to read. The parallels of our country's bloodiest war to the current divisiveness in today's America are clear. The Ones They Left Behind is more than an historical novel, it is a blueprint for healing America today. Harriman's fictionalized journey is inspired by an actual Union veteran soldier's march for peace in post-Civil War America.

Author Biography

Antonio Elmaleh was born and raised in New York City. After an early exit from Duke University, he worked on such feature films as Sidney Lumet's CHILD'S PLAY, THE LAST OF SHEILA, Neil Simon's THE SUNSHINE BOYS, BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY, THE ALL-AMERICAN GIRL and Simon's stage version of CHAPTER TWO. Antonio worked in acquisitions at World Northal Corporation, which domestically distributed independent/foreign films such as: BREAD AND CHOCOLATE; COUSIN, COUSINE; The Who's QUADROPHENIA; Nicholas Roeg's BAD TIMING and Peter Weir's THE LAST WAVE, as well as the first Chinese martial arts movies ever seen on American television. Later he was a development executive at 20th Century Fox and a freelance story analyst for Warner Brothers, Motown Production and Vestron Pictures. From 1986-89 he managed a co-production slate of six films in partnership with BBC-TV and was Executive Producer of THE VISION, starring Lee Remick, Dirk Bogarde and Helena Bonham Carter. A story of American evangelicals taking control of the fledgling British satellite television industry, the film opened the London Film Festival in 1988. Between 1989 and 1998 Antonio managed the portfolio of World-Wide Holdings Corporation, a privately-held real estate company. During that time he also bought and developed residential projects in New York City's Tribeca and Chelsea neighborhoods. In 1999, Antonio began researching and writing THE ONES THEY LEFT BEHIND, a novel about a Civil War veteran's one-man peace march set during the stormy days of American Reconstruction.