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An Empire of Their Own by Neal Gabler
A provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion picture industry.The names Harry Cohn, William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, Jack and Harry Warner, and Adolph Zucker are giants in the history of contemporary Hollywood, outsiders who dared to invent their own vision of the American Dream. Even to this day, the American values defined largely by the movies of these émigrés endure in American cinema and culture. Who these men were, how they came to dominate Hollywood, and what they gained and lost in the process is the exhilarating story of An Empire of Their Own.
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Created Hollywood, Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Fame, Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality, Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, and, most recently, Barbra Streisand: Rethinking Beauty, Femininity, and Power for the Yale Jewish Lives series, are among Neal Gabler's five books. His writings and articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Playboy, Newsweek, and Vogue, and he has received two Los Angeles Times Book Awards, Time magazine's nonfiction book of the year, USA Today's biography of the year, a National Book Critics Circle nomination, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Public Policy Scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley. The Starr Center is a place where you may go to learn about He has also served as the National Book Awards' primary nonfiction judge. Gabler is currently a professor at Stonybrook Southampton's MFA program.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385265577 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385265573 |
| Title | An Empire of Their Own |
| Author | Neal Gabler |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1989-08-08 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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