At the center of each family is a dreamer who finds fortune and strife in Southern California: Edward Doheny, the Wisconsin-born oil tycoon whose corruption destroyed the reputation of a U.S. West of Eden is a work of history both grand in scale and intimate in detail. These stories illuminate the bold aspirations of five larger-than-life individuals and their families. Stein vividly captures a mythic cast of characters: their ambitions and triumphs as well as their desolation and grief.
Now, in West of Eden, she turns to Los Angeles, the city of her childhood.
Jean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie: American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol "superstar" Edie Sedgwick, which was edited with George Plimpton. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic Edie
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