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The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, McA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood
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The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, McA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood Paperback - 2001

by Dennis McDougal

Now in paperback and with a new Afterword by the author, "The Last Mogul" is the acclaimed and decidedly unauthorized portrait of the "godfather of Hollywood". As the elusive and tyrannical head of the Music Corporation of America (MCA) until the 1990s, Lew Wasserman was one of the most powerful and feared men in show business for more than half a century. of photos.


From the publisher

The reviewer of the Boston Globe said point blank: "Over the years, I've read hundreds of books on Hollywood and the movie business, and this one is right at the top." As the elusive, tyrannical head of the Music Corporation of America (MCA) until the 1990s, Lew Wasserman was the most powerful and feared man in show business for more than half a century. His career spanned the entire history of the movies, from the silent era to the present, and he was guru to Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, and Jimmy Stewart, and to a new generation of filmmakers beginning with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. For more than four years, Dennis McDougal interviewed over 350 people who knew the man with the giant dark horn-rimmed glasses -- colleagues, relatives, rivals -- and drew on tens of thousands of pages of documents to produce this extraordinary and first-ever portrait of a legend and his times, a book that the New York Times Book Review called "thoroughly reported and engrossing" and that the Daily News called, simply, "a bombshell."

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The man who created Lew Wasserman's beloved MCA-who, in fact, created Lew Wasserman-was born in 1896 in South Bend.

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  • Title The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, McA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood
  • Author Dennis McDougal
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Revised ed
  • Pages 600
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001-04-20
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780306810503 / 0306810506
  • Weight 1.88 lbs (0.85 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 5.96 x 1.41 in (23.06 x 15.14 x 3.58 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Dennis McDougal, an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times for more than a decade, has won scores of journalistic honors, including the National Headliners Award and several Associated Press awards. He lives in Long Beach, California.
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