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A thorough job of research ... interesting but little-known facts are brought to light.... How this boy of the ghetto transformed himself into that film-baron fashion plate is the real meat of the story.... One is left to wonder if, fame and riches aside, Goldwyn wasnt motivated not so much by the mere will to survive, which exists everywhere, as by the iron-and-granite will to be great, to reach for and possess power.

Chicago Tribune

Richly detailed, at once a biography of Samuel Goldwyn and a business history of HollywoodBerg is especially good on the backgrounds of film deals. It is also a biography of the inner dreams that energized the great era of Hollywood.

Vogue

Thoroughly engrossing ... The book is peppered with hundreds of Goldwyns famous and infamous malapropisms, dozens of anecdotes about his critical and commercial failures as well as his outstanding successes, and details of his relationships with, among scores of others, Eddie Cantor, Ronald Colman, Merle Oberon, Gary Cooper, George Cukor, William Wyler, Billy Wilder.

Publishers Weekly

Meticulously researched ... Besides discovering stars like Gary Cooper, David Niven and Ronald Colman ... Goldwyn invented the package: He was the first to buy the book, hire the screenwriter, stars, crew and director. His fifty-year career established the model for todays independent producer.

Harpers Bazaar

Berg has done a painstaking job of re-creating this epic life.... We see Goldwyn-the-lonely-tyrant-of-tinsel-town working with the most brilliant writers, directors, and stars.

Cosmpopolitan

Does something no other Hollywood history has ever accomplished: this book explains Hollywood, is the best single-volume education in the movie business.... In the long run, Bergs book, meticulous, restrained, yet passionately empathetic to Goldwyn and the contract players of his life, will certainly take the cake among Hollywood histories of the age.

Manhattan Inc.

Whether you own a thousand film books or nary a one, room ought to be made for Goldwyn.... The films we watch now, with either gritted teeth or contented smiles, are the products of an industry that ended up taking its shape from the psyche of this tumultuous man.

GQ

Superb ... a complex portrait of a man and an era. There has never before been a Hollywood biography as profound as this.

Playboy

As meticulous, as sterling in quality and as large in scope as independent movie producer Samuel Goldwyn always (but not always very accurately) claimed his movies were.

People

Its a great place to start reading about the movies.... Cukor said of the gregarious mogul, He acted as though every part were given just for him. Thus does he dominate Bergs big, rich, graceful biography. One hates to close it for the last time as one hates to see Goldwyn and his larger-than-life moviemaking come to an end again. Bergs achievement is spectacularly rewarding.

The Washington Post Book World

PRAISE FOR A. SCOTT BERGS

Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

A highly readable work of literary history.

The New York Times Book Review

An extraordinarily fine and moving portrait of the man who assembled Americas favorite literary gangFitzgerald, Hemingway, Wolfe & Company.

Russell Baker

The interest in this book lies not in Perkinss literary or commercial acumen but in his private life. He is revealed as a man of painfully repressed passion, but of great tact and nearly heroic steadiness of character. Decency was his art. A. Scott Berg has told this story unobtrusively and with great feeling, and he has (perhaps just in the nick of time) rescued Perkins from permanent obscurity.

The Atlantic Monthly

[An] exhaustive, penetrating and wholly satisfying biography ... scrupulous, thoughtful, touching, memorable and eminently rewarding.

The Miami Herald

Bergs whole narrative is first-rate-filled with humor and feeling. Max would have published it in a minute.

Newsweek

A. Scott Bergs biography is, surprisingly, the first major study of this legendary figure, and it would thus be welcome for that reason alone. But this superb book is so meticulously researched, so richly detailed, so beautifully cultured, that it will undoubtedly become an indispensable account of modern literary life in America, as well as a highly rewarding portrait of a man previously hidden behind the scenes.... While lamenting a lack of space to describe fully the incredibly fascinating detail that marks so much of this outstanding book, we must recommend A. Scott Bergs biography of Max Perkins as one of the most important, most readable books of the year.

The Dallas Morning News

A delightful biography, rich in literary anecdotes, and a mine of advice for writers and editors.

Publishers Weekly

ALSO BY A. SCOTT BERG

Lindbergh
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

to
Katharine Hepburn, Kevin McCormick,
and Irene Mayer Selznick

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

SHELLEY, Ozymandias

PART ONE

... and the children of Israel dispersed, embarking on an endless cycle of settlement and influence that invoked persecution and expulsion.

The Hebrews suffered at the hands of the Egyptians, the Chaldeans, the Romans. Through the Middle Ages they continued to search for a homeland, only to be expelled from England in the 1290s, France in the 1390s, Spain in the 1490s. Into central Europe they poured.

In 1791, Russia established a Pale of Settlement, that portion of their land in which Jews were permitted to reside. Much of Polandwhich was about to endure a century of partitioning among Russia, Austria, and Prussialay just beyond the Pale. The continuation of Jewish communal life, forever threatened, found hope in a charismatic new religious movement there.

Hasidism emphasized piety over learning. Aglow with mysticism, this folk gospel preached that God smiled upon the ignorant as well as the wise and that ones devotion could best be expressed through passionate prayer. By the nineteenth century, most of Polands Orthodox Jewry belonged to the sect. The Jewish faith, bound by laws and tradition, proved imperishable. By 1876, the thriving city of Warsaw, on the left bank of the Vistula, found that one third of its 300,000 citizens was Jewish.

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