Here, in a marvellously gripping and
rewarding novel, is the story of the tycoons
who created and built the motion picture
industry- not in Hollywood but in New York
City at the turn of the century.
In particular, it is the story of Max Britsky -
born in the East Side ghetto of New York,
penniless - and of his struggle to survive
and to conquer the world he had entered.
It is also the story of the woman he married,
of love and hate, of fraud and financial
piracy and infighting, of loyalty and betrayal.
In other words, it is just the kind of tale you
would expect from one of the master story-
tellers of our time. It is not a book to be put
down easily. Once you enter the world of
New York at the turn of the century, the
world of Rector s and Delmonico s and
Boss Murphy of Tammany Hall and
Monk Eastman, that king of hoodlums, you
will partake of a wonderfully rewarding feast.
And you will welcome Max Britsky into the
world of literary immortals. Like Dan Lavette
of San Francisco, the hero of Howard Fast s
The Immigrants, Max Britsky is a man for
all seasons, and you will live with him,
laugh with him, and weep with him.
The story told in this novel, the story of the
creation of the film industry, an industry that
changed the world, has never been told in
fiction. It is one of the great stories of the
twentieth century, narrated here by a man
who is one of the most widely read
novelists of the twentieth century. It is the
best, the most fulfilled, of all Howard Fast s
novels.
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