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David Rensin has written and cowritten thirteen books, five of them New York Times bestsellers. His new book, All For a Few Perfect Waves: The Audacious Life and Legend of Rebel Surfer Miki Dora, was published by HarperEntertainment on April 8, 2008. The softcover was published on March 24, 2009.

According to Rensin, "There will never be another surfer like Miki 'Da Cat' Dora. For twenty years the dashing and enigmatic dark prince of California surfing dominated the Malibu waves and his peers' imaginations, blazing a rebel trail that would inspire generations to come. But when the sport exploded into the mainstream and surfing changed for ever, Dora's paradise was lost.

"Outraged at gridlocked swells and a scene that had grown ever more commo...more David Rensin has written and cowritten thirteen books, five of them New York Times bestsellers. His new book, All For a Few Perfect Waves: The Audacious Life and Legend of Rebel Surfer Miki Dora, was published by HarperEntertainment on April 8, 2008. The softcover was published on March 24, 2009.

According to Rensin, "There will never be another surfer like Miki 'Da Cat' Dora. For twenty years the dashing and enigmatic dark prince of California surfing dominated the Malibu waves and his peers' imaginations, blazing a rebel trail that would inspire generations to come. But when the sport exploded into the mainstream and surfing changed for ever, Dora's paradise was lost.

"Outraged at gridlocked swells and a scene that had grown ever more commodified, Dora eventually fled Malibu, seeking empty waves - and anonymity - beyond America. He'd also run afoul of the law, and he led the authorities on a seven-year chase around the globe. After his arrest and imprisonment, he would return to America once in a while, but never again to live, and in the end only to die.

Dora would never give up searching for the spirit of the Malibu he'd lost. Wherever he made his home - New Zealand, South Africa, France - he personified the rebel heart of surfing and became a legend in his own time.

This oral/narrative biography is based on interviews with more than three hundred people who knew Dora. It uncovers more truth than thought possible about surfing's most seductive and complicated icon. It is the story of one man's insistence on personal freedom - and the rewards and the costs that brings. It is also a story of innocence lost, of the growth and commercialization of the California lifestyle. Loner. Rebel. Wanderer. Legend.

The life of Miki Dora is the greatest surf story never told.

Rensin's previous book, The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up (Ballantine 2003), an oral history of what it's like to start at the bottom in a talent agency mailroom while dreaming of the top, spent ten weeks on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. He lives in Los Angeles."(less)

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Average rating: 3.77 · 480 ratings · 101 reviews · 11 distinct works

	The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up 3.72 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	All for a Few Perfect Waves: The Audacious Life and Legend of Rebel Surfer Miki Dora 3.62 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Bob Book 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Promises I Made My Mother by David Rensin (Goodreads Author), Sam Haskell, Ray Romano 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Yanni in Words by Yanni, David Rensin (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Confessions of a Late Night Talk Show Host: The Autobiography of Larry Sanders by Garry Shandling, David Rensin (Goodreads Author) 3.07 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Promises I Made My Mother by Sam Haskell, David Rensin (Goodreads Author), Ray Romano (Foreword) 2.79 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Where Did I Go Right?: You're No One in Hollywood Unless Someone Wants You Dead by Bernie Brillstein, David Rensin (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:
	It's All Lies and That's the Truth: and 49 More Rules from 50 Years of Trying to Make a Living in Hollywood by Bernie Brillstein, David Rensin (Goodreads Author) 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II by Louis Zamperini, David Rensin (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	My rating:

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