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Max
Max
Author: Howard Fast
Max tells the story of the rise of Max Britsky, entwined with the film industry’s beginnings near the turn of the twentieth century. When he was twelve, Max’s father died, leaving him to scrape out a living in Manhattan’s Lower East Side slums to provide for his mother and siblings. — But Max was a natural entrepre...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780440161066
ISBN-10: 0440161061
Publication Date: 8/1/1983
Pages: 395
Edition: Reissue
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4 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Dell
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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An exciting story that tracks a young man from the streest of New York to a Hollywood movie mogul.
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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. But in particular, it is the story of Max Britsky, born in the East Side ghetto of NY, penniless, and of his struggle to survive and to conquer the world he had entered. It is the story of the woman he married, of love and hate and fraud and financial piracy and infighting, of loyalty and betrayal.


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