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Goldwyn

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Published on Jul 29, 2025 | 656 Pages

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Published on Jul 29, 2025 | 656 Pages

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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 era—a 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 Harper’s 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.

“This story of a grabby, imaginative man would make a more telling movie about America than Goldwyn ever produced himself.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Moving, funny, compassionate and richly entertaining…The book proves worthy of what would be, in context, the highest praise of all: It has The Goldwyn Touch.”—The Washington Post Book World

“Fascinating…Behind-the-scenes stories any tabloid would lunge at, a fabulous feeling for history, and most of all, a brilliant account of a very complicated man.”—Cosmopolitan

Author

A. Scott Berg

A. Scott Berg graduated from Princeton University in 1971. He is the author of the bestselling books Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, which won the National Book Award, Goldwyn: A Biography, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Lindbergh, which won the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Los Angeles.

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