num_pages: 502
description: 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 were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion picture industry.
language: English
title: An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
titlecomplete: An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
genres: History, Judaism, Film, Jewish, Media Tie In, Biography, Business, American, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 663
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: History
publisher: Anchor