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
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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