{"product_id":"seduction-sex-lies-and-stardom-in-howard-hughess-hollywood-isbn-9780062440525","title":"Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this riveting popular history, the creator of \u003cem\u003eYou Must Remember This\u003c\/em\u003e probes the inner workings of Hollywood’s glamorous golden age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul’s obsessions with sex, power and publicity trapped, abused, or benefitted women who dreamt of screen stardom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn recent months, the media has reported on scores of entertainment figures who used their power and money in Hollywood to sexually harass and coerce some of the most talented women in cinema and television. But as Karina Longworth reminds us, long before the Harvey Weinsteins there was Howard Hughes—the Texas millionaire, pilot, and filmmaker whose reputation as a cinematic provocateur was matched only by that as a prolific womanizer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis supposed conquests between his first divorce in the late 1920s and his marriage to actress Jean Peters in 1957 included many of Hollywood’s most famous actresses, among them Billie Dove, Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, and Lana Turner. From promoting bombshells like Jean Harlow and Jane Russell to his contentious battles with the censors, Hughes—perhaps more than any other filmmaker of his era—commoditized male desire as he objectified and sexualized women. Yet there were also numerous women pulled into Hughes’s grasp who never made it to the screen, sometimes virtually imprisoned by an increasingly paranoid and disturbed Hughes, who retained multitudes of private investigators, security personnel, and informers to make certain these actresses would not escape his clutches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVivid, perceptive, timely, and ridiculously entertaining, \u003cem\u003eThe Seducer\u003c\/em\u003e is a landmark work that examines women, sex, and male power in Hollywood during its golden age—a legacy that endures nearly a century later.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Karina Longworth loves Hollywood the way it ought to be loved — mercilessly. She is a skeptic without cynicism, a feminist without apology, and in \u003cem\u003eSeduction \u003c\/em\u003eshe has found the great subject that her essential podcast has long promised” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Kaplan, author of Sinatra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An entertaining and timely tour of early Hollywood mores and manipulation. No matter how much you think you know about golden age Hollywood, Longworth serves up fascinatingly fresh perspective on the ways male desire and power shaped movie mythology.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoy Press, author of Stealing the Show\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Full of insight...illuminating and memorable.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A compelling and relevant must-read.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Audacious and welcome.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSight and Sound\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Throughout this densely researched and lively book the siren song of the new medium of film is heard.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCineaste\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Longworth pulls back the curtain on Hollywood’s golden age to reveal, through the stories of some of the actresses pursued by legendary millionaire mogul Howard Hughes, its dark and lasting legacy of power inequity, harassment, and abuse.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The stories Longworth uncovers—about Katharine Hepburn and Jane Russell, yes, but also Ida Lupino and Faith Domergue and Anita Loos—are so rich, so compelling, that they urge you to question how much else in history has been lost within the swirling vortex of Great Men.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Longworth blasts through the seductive narratives propagated by men in the film business to uncover the dark stories underneath.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“From the force behind the \u003cem\u003eYou Must Remember This\u003c\/em\u003e podcast comes a book exploring the glamour of classic Hollywood cinema through the lens of Texas business magnate, filmmaker (\u003cem\u003eHell’s Angels, Scarface\u003c\/em\u003e), and notorious womanizer Howard Hughes—think a \u003cstrong\u003eHarvey Weinstein\u003c\/strong\u003e–esque character decades before #MeToo.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Jam-packed with Hollywood scandal and history.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRefinery 29\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A candid portrait of the multifaceted millionaire…As his romantic tastes shifts from known quantities — like Hepburn, Rogers and Gardner — to powerless unknowns, \u003cem\u003eSeduction\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the root of Hughes’s interest in women: a desire to exert total control, rather than true affection.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Vibrant… A compulsive page-turner… Much of \u003cem\u003eSeduction\u003c\/em\u003e reads like a long overdue act of redress, repositioning women into the more central positions where they belong.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A history that shows clearly how powerful men exploited actresses long before the #MeToo movement began. Hollywood historian Longworth has mined memoirs, biographies, magazines, newspapers, and archives to create an entertaining, gossip-filled portrait of the film capital’s golden age… A lively—and often sordid—Hollywood history.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A first-rate work of cultural curation, in which Longworth combs the countless stacks of Hollywood memoirs and biographies, with a focus on the pathological predations of Howard Hughes, Texas millionaire, starmaker and film producer.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today (four stars)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Seduction reads like a scandal sheet tempered with primary and secondary research.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Guaranteed to engross anyone with any interest at all in Hollywood, in movies, in #MeToo and in the never-ending story of men with power and women without.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “An astute and entertaining takedown of the movie industry, the press and the multimillionaire turned wannabe filmmaker Howard Hughes. Hardly anyone emerges from the pages of \u003cem\u003eSeduction\u003c\/em\u003e unblemished by selfishness and greed once they are touched by the movie business and its promise of wealth, power and fame.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAssociated Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888853151973,"sku":"NP9780062440525","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062440525.jpg?v=1730229957","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/seduction-sex-lies-and-stardom-in-howard-hughess-hollywood-isbn-9780062440525","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}