Max: A Novel

The New York Times–bestselling novel of one man's journey from New York's slums to become one of America's first film moguls—from the author of Spartacus.

Max tells the story of the rise of Max Britsky, entwined with the film industry's beginnings near the turn of the twentieth century. When he was twelve, Max's father died, leaving him to scrape out a living in Manhattan's Lower East Side slums to provide for his mother and siblings. But Max was a natural entrepreneur, and he followed h...