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An epic, mesmerizing dental history of Hollywood and LA from the author of the modern typical Edie. Jean Stein transformed the artwork of oral history in her groundbreaking booklet Edie: American Young lady, an indelible family portrait of Andy Warhol "superstar" Edie Sedgwick, which was edited with George Plimpton. Now, in West of Eden, she turns to LA, the town of her youth. Stein vividly catches a mythic solid of people: their ambitions and triumphs as well as their desolation and grief. These stories illuminate the striking aspirations of five larger-than-life individuals and their families. West of Eden is a work of history both grand in scale and intimate at length. At the guts of each family is a dreamer who discovers lot of money and strife in Southern California: Edward Doheny, the Wisconsin-born essential oil tycoon whose corruption destroyed the trustworthiness of a US leader and resulted in his own son's violent fatality; Jack port Warner, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who, regarding his brothers, founded one of the world's most iconic film studios; Jane Garland, the stressed daughter of your aspiring actress who could never avoid her mother's strategies; Jennifer Jones, an actress from Oklahoma who won the Academy Honor at 25 but battled with despair amid her popularity and glamour. Finally, Stein chronicles the ascent of her own dad, Jules Stein, an eyes doctor blessed in Indiana who transformed Hollywood with the creation of your unrivaled agency and studio room. In each section, Stein paints a family portrait of your outsider who pins his or her desires on the nascent electricity and promises of LA. Each individual's unyielding intensity pushes loved ones, especially children, toward a perilous threshold. West of Eden depicts the town that has projected its own image of America onto the planet, in all its idealism and paradox. As she performed in Edie, Jean Stein weaves jointly the personal recollections of an array of individuals to create an astonishing tapestry of a place like no other. Read by Scott Brick, Paul Boehmer, Tara Sands, Cassandra Campbell, Arthur Morey, Tag Bramhall, Kathleen McInerney, Ann Marie Lee, Fred Sanders, Jorjeana Marie, Keith Szarabajka, Will Damron, and Bruce Mann.
