An Empire Of Their Own: How The Jews Invented Hollywood
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At the heart of the American dream factory lies a story that has never been fully told — until Neal Gabler's landmark work chronicles how a remarkable group of Jewish immigrants, fleeing persecution and poverty in Eastern Europe, arrived on the shores of America and, through sheer will and visionary ambition, built the most powerful entertainment industry the world has ever known. Set against the glittering backdrop of early 20th-century Los Angeles, the book presents the founders of the major Hollywood studios — Louis B. Mayer, Samuel Goldwyn, the Warner Brothers, Harry Cohn, and others — as driven, contradictory men who transformed a novelty sideshow into a cultural colossus, and in doing so, invented a version of America that the world would come to believe was real. Gabler argues with brilliant precision that Hollywood was not merely a business venture but an act of reinvention — a means by which a marginalized people could construct an idealized image of a nation that had not yet fully accepted them. His prose is authoritative yet propulsive, weaving social history, biography, and cultural criticism into a single, breathtaking narrative. An Empire of Their Own stands as one of the most significant works of American cultural history ever written, and its central question — who gets to define a nation's identity, and at what cost? — resonates more urgently today than ever before.
Author: Neal Gabler
Format: Hardback
Published: 1988, WH ALlen
Genre: American history
Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At the heart of the American dream factory lies a story that has never been fully told — until Neal Gabler's landmark work chronicles how a remarkable group of Jewish immigrants, fleeing persecution and poverty in Eastern Europe, arrived on the shores of America and, through sheer will and visionary ambition, built the most powerful entertainment industry the world has ever known. Set against the glittering backdrop of early 20th-century Los Angeles, the book presents the founders of the major Hollywood studios — Louis B. Mayer, Samuel Goldwyn, the Warner Brothers, Harry Cohn, and others — as driven, contradictory men who transformed a novelty sideshow into a cultural colossus, and in doing so, invented a version of America that the world would come to believe was real. Gabler argues with brilliant precision that Hollywood was not merely a business venture but an act of reinvention — a means by which a marginalized people could construct an idealized image of a nation that had not yet fully accepted them. His prose is authoritative yet propulsive, weaving social history, biography, and cultural criticism into a single, breathtaking narrative. An Empire of Their Own stands as one of the most significant works of American cultural history ever written, and its central question — who gets to define a nation's identity, and at what cost? — resonates more urgently today than ever before.