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.
- ISBN10 0863694438
- ISBN13 9780863694431
- Publish Date February 1991 (first published 15 June 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 March 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Virgin Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 512
- Language English