The history of Hollywood is a history of 20th century America — more precisely, ... The Book Review Podcast: Each week, top authors and critics talk about the latest news in the literary world.

There are a handful of excellent books about the moguls that ran and built Hollywood. Put Gabler’s 1988 effort at the top of the list. This is a colossal work about the immigrant experience.

This is Basinger and Wasson’s and the AFI’s oral history of Hollywood, and it’s a fine one. But remember, as the man said, Nobody knows anything. Lisa Schwarzbaum, a former critic at ...

What readers are saying: "I couldn't stop reading this book as it took you inside both Hollywood history and parts of the Civil Rights Movement. A wonderful, heartfelt novel." At the dawn of the new ...

THR’s ranks the list of 100 best film books chosen by more than 300 Hollywood heavyweights. ... 2007 • Alfred A. Knopf • History 18 votes. During Hollywood’s Golden Age, ...

These words, this introduction to a memory, launch Foster Hirsch’s sweeping, winningly eccentric new film history book, “Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties,” a study that manages to be ...

We came. We saw. We published. But no list is worth sending out into the world if it doesn’t provoke at least a little good-natured disagreement, and our ranking of the 50 best Hollywood books ...

‘A Murder in Hollywood’ author Casey Sherman on a killer book. Actress Lana Turner, left, and underworld figure Johnny Stompanato are greeted at Los Angeles International Airport on March 19 ...

Matthew Specktor grew up the son of a famous Hollywood agent. In The Golden Hour he serves up family saga, cultural criticism, fictionalized biography, history and lament for a vanishing world.

THR’s ranks the list of 100 best film books chosen by more than 300 Hollywood heavyweights. THR’s list of must-read tomes ... 2013 • Metropolitan Books • Interview/Oral History ...