An Empire of Their Own : How the Jews Invented Hollywood

Winner of the __Los Angeles Times__ Book Award for history, this "wonderful history of the golden age of the movie moguls" (__Chicago Tribune__ ) is 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. 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. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, this "wonderful history of the golden age of the movie moguls" (Chicago Tribune ) is 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.

This is a provocative and richly entertaining biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the loving forces behind the creation of America's motion picture industry.

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, this "wonderful history of the golden age of the movie moguls" ( Chicago Tribune ) is 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. From the Trade Paperback edition. THIS BOOK BEGINS, AS HOLLYwood itself did, with something of a paradox.