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Will undoubtedly become a priceless handbook for everyone interested in the history of [the] American film industry. -- 25fps

<p> Shows just how important [Ince] was to the film business and how many producers model their careers after him today. --City Book Review --

<p> Scholars and historians welcome an authoritative, detailed, and readable study of this neglected film pioneer. --Richard Koszarski, author of Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff --

For more than half a century, film historians all over the world have been awaiting an authoritative and scrupulously researched biography of American film mogul Thomas H. Ince. Brian Taves has achieved this formidable task, patiently researching in the remotest archives in order to give us a vivid and convincing portrayal not only of a neglected filmmaker, but of his flourishing film company and his independent studio. A must for any cinephile's library. -- Herve Dumont, author of <i>Frank Borzage: The Life and Films of a Hollywood Romantic</i></p>

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Brian Taves is an archivist with the Library of Congress, where this project began with a staff fellowship award. He is the author of over a hundred articles and six books including P. G. Wodehouse and Hollywood: Screenwriting, Satires and Adaptation; Robert Florey: The French Expressionist; and The Romance of Adventure: The Genre of Historical Adventure Movies. He lives in Culpeper, Virginia.

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