Goldwyn: A Biography

About this book

The legacy of silver screen tycoon Samuel Goldwyn comes to vivid life in this acclaimed biography from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Wilson Lindbergh and Max Perkins: Editor of Genius. He was the premier dream-maker of his eraa fierce independent force in a time when studios ruled. He was a producer of silver-screen sagas who may have been in the words of Harpers Bazaar the last Hollywood tycoon. In this riveting book biographer A. Scott Berg tells the life story of Samuel Goldwyn as rich with drama as any feature-length epic and as compelling as the history of Hollywood itself.