Winner 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 ...

The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history. Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art f...

"A thoughtful, in places chilling, account of the way entertainment values have hollowed out American life." -- The New York Times Book Review From one of America's most original cultural critics and the author of Winchell , the story o...