The Hypomanic Edge by John D. Gartner

Author:John D. Gartner [Gartner, John D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2005-03-14T23:00:00+00:00

V The Selznicks and the Mayers A Hollywood Family

When a generation of Jews fled eastern Europe at the turn of the century, the history of the Jews and America became intertwined forever. Among other things, the Jews in America created a new industry: mass media. Both commercial radio and television were launched almost single-handedly by David Sarnoff, a Russian Jewish immigrant. His chief rival, William Paley, the founder of CBS, was also Jewish. The nation’s two most respected newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post, both rose from obscurity under Jewish ownership. Most of the large book-publishing houses were founded by Jews, including Simon & Schuster, Random House, Viking, Bantam, Alfred A. Knopf, and Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Most famously, this first generation of Eastern European Jews invented Hollywood.

Many of these enterprises began as family businesses. In the Jewish families that built the movie business, virtually every member was bipolar to one degree or another. This should not surprise us. Highly creative people are often bipolar, as Kay Jamison showed in her classic study of writers, Touched with Fire. And more than any other, media is the business of creativity.

When you examine the lives of these early pioneers, you see that they were as dramatic in the expression of their moods off the screen as they were on it.

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