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.
Supremely entertaining ... The only real criticism I can levy against The Path to Paradise is that it is a little slow to reveal its shape ... A marvel of unshowy reportage.
Mouthwatering new details ... This is no straightforward journey up and out ... Wasson has a great journalist’s eye for telling details and a great stylist’s ear, washing the reader along on a torrent of prose that mirrors Coppola’s own unfailing energy.
Rich in detail, it’s full of surprises and revelations, and impeccably researched and documented. For fans of books about moviemaking in general, and Francis Ford Coppola in particular, this is required reading.
