{"product_id":"an-empire-of-their-own-how-the-jews-invented-hollywood-paperback","title":"An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNeal Gabler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA 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. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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  migr s 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 \u003ci\u003eAn Empire of Their Own.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeal Gabler is the author of five books: \u003ci\u003eAn Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity, Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWalt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eBarbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity and Power\u003c\/i\u003e for the Yale Jewish Lives series. His essays and articles have appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines, including \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Playboy, Newsweek\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, and he has been the recipient of two \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prizes, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's nonfiction book of the year, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e's biography of the year, a National Book Critics Circle nomination, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Public Policy Scholarship at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a Shorenstein Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Patrick Henry Fellowship at Washington College's C.V. Starr Center. He has also served as the chief nonfiction judge of the National Book Awards. Gabler is currently a professor for the MFA program at Stonybrook Southampton.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 512\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.1 x 5.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 08, 1989\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755661033760,"sku":"9780385265577","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fa06c78e6ae1c24e923506007e2b5506.webp?v=1780065116","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/an-empire-of-their-own-how-the-jews-invented-hollywood-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}