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An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood

by Neal Gabler

A group biography of Hollywood’s early builders

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A group biography of Hollywood’s early builders

Neal Gabler frames the emergence of the American motion picture industry through the lives of Jewish immigrants who helped build it. The book’s cast includes Harry Cohn, William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, the Warner brothers, and Adolph Zukor. Their careers provide a lens on the making of Hollywood and on the American Dream as these industry figures envisioned it. The description also connects their influence to the values expressed in American movies, placing the history of a business alongside the cultural reach of its films.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the early history of Hollywood and the American film industry.
  • Readers seeking a group biography centered on Jewish immigrant entrepreneurs.
  • Readers curious about connections between movies, American values, and the American Dream.

Themes

Hollywood’s originsJewish immigrant experienceFilm and American cultureThe American Dream

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Book overview

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
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