{"product_id":"the-last-kings-of-hollywood-coppola-lucas-spielberg-and-the-battle-for-the-soul-of-american-cinema-9781250878724","title":"The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg--And the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe untold, intimate story of how three young visionaries--Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg--revolutionized American cinema, creating the most iconic films in history while risking everything, redefining friendship, and shaping Hollywood as we know it. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the summer of 1967, as the old Hollywood studio system was dying, an intense, uncompromising young film school graduate named George Lucas walked onto the Warner Bros backlot for his first day working as an assistant to another up-and-coming, largely-unknown filmmaker, a boisterous father of two called Francis Ford Coppola. At the exact same time, across town on the Universal Studios lot, a film-obsessed twenty-year-old from a peripatetic Jewish family, Steven Spielberg, longed to break free from his apprenticeship for the struggling studio and become a film director in his own right. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWithin a year, the three men would become friends. Spielberg, prioritizing security, got his seven-year contract directing television. Lucas and Coppola, hungry for independence, left Hollywood for San Francisco to found an alternative studio, American Zoetrope, and make films without answering to corporate capitalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on extensive research and hundreds of original interviews with the inner circle of these Hollywood icons, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Kings of Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e tells the thrilling, dramatic inside story of how, over the next fifteen years, the three filmmakers rivalled and supported each other, fell out and reconciled, and struggled to reinvent popular American cinema. Along the way, Coppola directed \u003ci\u003eThe Godfather\u003c\/i\u003e, then the highest-grossing film of all-time, until Spielberg surpassed it with \u003ci\u003eJaws\u003c\/i\u003e -- whose record Lucas broke with \u003ci\u003eStar Wars\u003c\/i\u003e, which Spielberg surpassed again with \u003ci\u003eE.T. \u003c\/i\u003eBy the early 1980s, they were the richest, best-known filmmakers in the world, each with an empire of their own. \u003ci\u003eThe Last Kings of Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e is an unprecedented chronicle of their rise, their dreams and demons, their triumphs and their failures -- intimate, extraordinary, and supremely entertaining.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Fischer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Celadon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.60w x 1.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250878724","brand":"Celadon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45229590282377,"sku":"9781250878724","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_065a9fe1-f9e1-483c-928d-8c73c2325244.jpg?v=1770111868","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-last-kings-of-hollywood-coppola-lucas-spielberg-and-the-battle-for-the-soul-of-american-cinema-9781250878724","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}