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开 本: 大32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780307475220
“An exceptional work of film scholarship, packed with
information no one had uncovered before that reads like a juicy
novel.” —Vanity Fair
“Beauchamp serves up with gusto many measures of gossipy history
and historical gossip. . . . One hell of a story.” —San
Francisco Chronicle
“Fascinating. . . . The intellect, the intuition, the gumption, the
gall, the vision, and the restless ambition of the founding father
are meticulously documented.” —The Boston Globe
“Cari Beauchamp deserves great credit for bringing Joseph P.
Kennedy into sharp focus with a wealth of detail. . . . Beauchamp
has succeeded not only in finding a new way of telling the story,
but one which adds to it much we didn’t know before. ” —Michael
Korda, The Daily Beast
“Smart. . . . Beauchamp suggests that nothing in Kennedy’s long
career of banking, stock manipulation, and New Dealing prepared him
for presidential politics the way his time in the picture business
did.” —New York Times Book Review
“[A] crackling page-turner. . . . Beauchamp demonstrates again and
again, that apart from [Kennedy’s] abiding love and concern for his
nine children (and perhaps a few others including Marion Davies),
the bottom line was everything.” —Los Angeles Times
“Rarely has [Kennedy’s Hollywood years] been documented in such
meticulous detail. . . . Well-written and researched, Beauchamp’s
book is a probing examination of the man in the industry during
perhaps its most fascinating period.” —Chicago
Sun-Times
“Beauchamp’s research is phenomenal and would have daunted any
other author. . . . A masterpiece of backstage capitalism.”
—Cineaste
“Cari Beauchamp has dug deep into my mother’s files and records and
emerged to finally tell the true story of Gloria Swanson’s
relationship with Joe Kennedy. No one else has ever been as honest
or as thorough.” —Michelle Farmer Amon, daughter of Gloria
Swanson
diplomat, and sly political patriarch is well-documented. But
his years as a Hollywood mogul have never been fully explored until
now.
In Joseph P. Kennedy Presents, Cari Beauchamp brilliantly
explores this unknown chapter in Kennedy’s biography. Between
1926 and 1930, Kennedy positioned himself as a major Hollywood
player. In two short years, he was running three studios
simultaneously and then, in a bold move, he merged his studios with
David Sarnoff to form the legendary RKO Studio. Beauchamp
also tells the story of Kennedy’s affair with Gloria Swanson; how
he masterminded the mergers that created the blueprint for
contemporary Hollywood; and made the fortune that became the
foundation of his empire.
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