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Check out this new review in the Philadelphia Inquirer. It’s especially gratifying because the author is David Haward Bain, a brilliant historian who wrote THE authoritative book on the transcontinental railroad, Empire Express. It’s also nice it appears in my hometown paper (and suggests that Hollywood should be taking a second look at the REAL Fred Harvey story, and not the one made up for the 1946 Judy Garland flick.) Enjoy.
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> Hollywood should be taking a second look at the REAL Fred Harvey story, and not the one made up for the 1946 Judy Garland flick
Wouldn’t it be great if Hollywood was up to such a monumental task? We don’t see many westerns or Victorian-era biographies, or multi-generational family sagas these days. But this Americana story is so rich. Done right, it would be a classic epic. I can’t help thinking about “How the West Was Won.” Maybe the right person in Hollywood will run across your book and be inspired?