Annal:1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History
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Results of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the year 1989. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History
- History books
- History authors
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors.
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
- 1989 LATimes–History winner
- Score: 10.39
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.
