City of Nets A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s [Paperback]

This dazzling story of Hollywood during the decade of its greatest success is a social and cultural history of the movie capital's golden age. Its cast includes actors, writers, musicians and composers, producers and directors, racketeers and labor leaders, journalists and politicians in the turbulent decade from World War II to Korea.

Otto Friedrich(1929-1995) was a journalist and cultural historian. At one time editor of theNew York Daily Newsand an essayist forTimemagazine, he was the author of nine books, includingBefore the Deluge: Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s.