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Paul Fischer gives a definitive account of one of the wildest and most influential periods of Hollywood at Books on the Rise!

About The Last Kings of Hollywood:

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.

About Paul Fischer:

Paul Fischer is an author, screenwriter, and filmmaker. He has written about subjects as varied as the North Korean community in London's suburbs, the state of coal mining in British Columbia during the COVID pandemic, changing beer culture on Canada's West Coast — and even the best and worst kisses in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

He 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 Guardian, The Independent, Bright Wall / Dark Room, and the Narwhal.