Books by Neal Gabler and Complete Book Reviews

Neal Gabler, Author . Knopf $35 (851p) ISBN 978-0-679-43822-9
Few men could be said to have as pervasive an influence on American culture as Walt Disney, and Gabler (Winchell ) scours the historical record for as thorough an explanation of that influence as any biographer could muster. Every period of Disney
READ FULL REVIEW
Neal Gabler, Author Anchor Books $17.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-385-26557-7
The author presents ``an entertaining, wide-ranging, in-depth account'' of the Jewish studio executives, theater owners, producers, writers, lawyers and talent agents who dominated the American film industry until shortly after WW II. ``Gabler...
READ FULL REVIEW
Neal Gabler, Author Alfred A. Knopf $27.5 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-41752-1
Even before the first tabloids began hawking true-crimes stories and trashy melodramas to 19th-century readers, mass entertainment had cast a spell over American life. How that spell has been magnified to such an extent that entertainment is now ""th
READ FULL REVIEW
Neal Gabler, Author Crown Publishers $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-56808-8
Best known as a former co-host of PBS's Sneak Previews , Gabler presents an entertaining, wide-ranging, in-depth account of the Jewish studio executives, theater owners, producers, writers, lawyers and talent agents who dominated the American film...
READ FULL REVIEW
Neal Gabler, Author Alfred A. Knopf $30 (681p) ISBN 978-0-679-41751-4
Inventor of the modern gossip column in the 1920s, pioneer in the mass culture of celebrity and a political opportunist who turned from populism to Red-baiting with the prevailing winds, Walter Winchell (1897-1972) changed 20th-century journalism...
READ FULL REVIEW
Neal Gabler. Random House, $40 (928p) ISBN 978-0-307-40544-9
Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy was not a callow afterthought to his larger-than-life brothers, but “the most consequential legislator of his lifetime” and an embodiment of liberalism’s strengths and tragic weaknesses, according to this sweeping...
READ FULL REVIEW
Neal Gabler. Crown, $40 (1,280p) ISBN 978-0-593-23862-2
Ted Kennedy (1932–2009) spent the second half of his life fighting for liberalism against a gale of conservative politics, according to the magisterial conclusion (after Catching the Wind) to Gabler’s two-volume biography of the Massachusetts...
READ FULL REVIEW
ARTICLES
  • Lonely Voyager: PW Talks with Neal Gabler
  • X
    Stay ahead with
    Tip Sheet!
    Free newsletter: the hottest new books, features and more
    X
    X
    Email Address

    Password

    Log In Forgot Password

    Premium online access is only available to PW subscribers. If you have an active subscription and need to set up or change your password, please click here.

    New to PW? To set up immediate access, click here.

    NOTE: If you had a previous PW subscription, click here to reactivate your immediate access. PW site license members have access to PW’s subscriber-only website content. If working at an office location and you are not "logged in", simply close and relaunch your preferred browser. For off-site access, click here. To find out more about PW’s site license subscription options, please email Mike Popalardo at: mike@nextstepsmarketing.com.

    To subscribe: click here.