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THE PATH TO PARADISE - SAM WASSON GEBUNDEN

Sam Wasson's supremely entertaining book tracks the ups and downs  ins and outs  of a
remarkable career. . . . A marvel of unshowy reportage.-New York Times The New York Times
bestselling author of Fifth Avenue  5 A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with the definitive
account of Academy Award-winning director Francis Ford Coppola's decades-long dream to reinvent
American filmmaking  if not the entire world  through his production company  American
Zoetrope. Francis Ford Coppola is one of the great American dreamers  and his most magnificent
dream is American Zoetrope  the production company he founded in San Francisco years before his
gargantuan success  when he was only thirty. Through Zoetrope's experimental  communal utopia 
Coppola attempted to reimagine the entire pursuit of moviemaking. Now  more than fifty years
later  despite myriad setbacks  the visionary filmmaker's dream persists  most notably in the
production of his decades-in-the-making film and the culmination of his utopian ideals 
Megalopolis. As Wasson makes clear  the story of Zoetrope is also the story of Coppola's wife 
Eleanor Coppola  and their children  and of personal lives inseparable from artistic passion.
It is a story that charts the divergent paths of Coppola and his cofounder and onetime
apprentice  George Lucas  and of their very different visions of art and commerce. And it is a
story inextricably bound up in the making of one of the greatest quixotic masterpieces ever
attempted  Apocalypse Now  and in what Coppola found in the jungles of the Philippines when he
walked the razor's edge. That story  already the stuff of legend  has never fully been told 
until this extraordinary book.

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