Ken Auletta inaugurated the Annals of Communications column and profiles for The New Yorker in 1992. His national bestsellers include Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way, Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of The House of Lehman, and Googled: The End of the World as We Know It.
Auletta's new book is Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence.
At Lit Hub Auletta tagged "eight books to read to understand the world in which Weinstein flourished." One title on the list:
Neal Gabler, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented HollywoodRead about the other books on Auletta's list.
To understand the early days of Hollywood and the shaping of a sometimes brutal culture, you can’t do better than Neal Gabler’s book. The proverbial casting couch is very visible in these pages. And while sexual abuse was prevalent, studio heads—unlike Harvey Weinstein—did not commonly rape their prey.
--Marshal Zeringue
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