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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

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    Publisher: Random House USA Inc
    Publication Date: 08/08/1989
    ISBN13: 9780385265577, 978-0385265577
    ISBN10: 0385265573
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    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.

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