West of Eden depicts the city that has projected its own image of America onto the world, in all its idealism and paradox. Each individual's unyielding intensity pushes loved ones, especially children, toward a perilous threshold. In each chapter, Stein paints a portrait of an outsider who pins his or her hopes on the nascent power and promise of Los Angeles.
Finally, Stein chronicles the ascent of her own father, Jules Stein, an eye doctor born in Indiana who transformed Hollywood with the creation of an unrivaled agency and studio. president and led to his own son's violent death Jack Warner, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who together with his brothers founded one of the world's most iconic film studios Jane Garland, the troubled daughter of an aspiring actress who could never escape her mother's schemes Jennifer Jones, an actress from Oklahoma who won the Academy Award at twenty-five but struggled with despair amid her fame and glamour. At the center of each family is a dreamer who finds fortune and strife in Southern California: Edward Doheny, the Wisconsin-born oil tycoon whose corruption destroyed the reputation of a U.S. West of Eden is a work of history both grand in scale and intimate in detail. These stories illuminate the bold aspirations of five larger-than-life individuals and their families. Stein vividly captures a mythic cast of characters: their ambitions and triumphs as well as their desolation and grief.
Now, in West of Eden, she turns to Los Angeles, the city of her childhood.
Jean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie: American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol "superstar" Edie Sedgwick, which was edited with George Plimpton. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic Edie
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