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The Last Kings of Hollywood
Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg - And the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema
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Coppola - The Godfather Spielberg - Jaws Lucas - Star Wars This is the story of the most successful group of friends in the history of cinema and how they reshaped it forever. The Last Kings of Hollywood tells the thrilling, dramatic inside story of how...
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The definitive account of one of the wildest and most influential periods of Hollywood history, starring the three most famous directors of all time and their tumultuous friendships
The definitive account of one of the wildest and most influential periods of Hollywood history, starring the three most famous directors of all time and their tumultuous friendships
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Coppola - The Godfather
Spielberg - Jaws
Lucas - Star Wars
This is the story of the most successful group of friends in the history of cinema and how they reshaped it forever.
The Last Kings of Hollywood tells the thrilling, dramatic inside story of how the three filmmakers rivalled and supported each other, fell out and reconciled, and struggled to reinvent popular American cinema. Along the way, Coppola directed The Godfather, then the highest-grossing film of all-time, until Spielberg surpassed it with Jaws—whose record Lucas broke with Star Wars, which Spielberg surpassed again with E.T.
By the early 1980s, they were the richest, best-known filmmakers in the world, each with an empire of their own. The Last Kings of Hollywood is an unprecedented chronicle of their rise, their dreams and demons, their triumphs and their failures—intimate, extraordinary, and supremely entertaining.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780571378647
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 12 March 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 480
About the Author
Paul Fischer is the author of A Kim Jong-Il Production (2015), shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Non-Fiction Dagger and chosen as an Amazon Best of the Year Nonfiction Selection, one of Library Journal's Top Ten Books of the Year, one of Kirkus Reviews' Best of 2015, and one of NPR's Best Books of the Year, and The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures (2022), a New York Times Editor's Choice and selected as one of the Times's Best True Crime Books of the year. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Independent, Bright Wall / Dark Room, and the Narwhal.
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