Jennifer Jones, a young actress from Oklahoma, wins an Academy Award at twenty-five but struggles with despair despite her fame and glamour. Jane Garland, the troubled daughter of an aspiring actress, can never escape her mother's schemes. Jack Warner, the son of Jewish Polish immigrants, joins with his brothers to found one of the world's most iconic film studios.
There is Edward Doheny, the Wisconsin-born oil tycoon whose corruption ruins the reputation of a United States president and leads to his own son's violent death. West of Eden, a work of history both grand in scale and intimate in detail, tells the stories of five larger-than-life individuals and their families, each one representing different aspects of Los Angeles and the American dream. Now, in West of Eden, she turns her lens toward the city Sedgwick came from-Los Angeles-and a mythic cast of fortune hunters and aspiring moguls whose quests for fame and power destroyed many along the way. "An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles by the author of the contemporary classic Edie Jean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie : American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol 'superstar' Edie Sedgwick.
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