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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood

byWilliam J Mann

Centered on the murder, morphine, and madness at the dawn of hollywood, Tinseltown shows William J Mann tracing how individual lives intersect with institutions, ideas, and historical change. Tinseltown combines archival sources, narrative history, and voices from the period, allowing the evidence to complicate easy judgments and familiar explanations. Seen through the lens of performing arts and true crime, Tinseltown explains not only what happened, but why competing interpretations still matter. By the end, the murder, morphine, and madness at the dawn of hollywood emerges as a layered story of competing motives, unintended results, and choices made under pressure.

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Publication date

2015

Format

Print edition

Pages

528

ISBN

9780062242198