Praise for Michael Benson:

“A wonderful read with a thoughtful handling of a very serious and complex subject matter. Lovers of Hollywood and history will find Michael Benson’s new book fascinating and entertaining.” —Craig Singer, co-author of Moguls and Emmy-nominated film writer, producer, and director

“Chockablock with life-threatening espionage, clandestine tradecraft, and a world hanging in the balance, Michael Benson’s Hollywood Vs. Nazis is as gripping as any Tinseltown spy thriller. As his previous tome detailed American gangsters battling Nazi party members in the US in the years before World War II, Hollywood Vs. Nazis highlights how Hollywood moguls funded the fight against Nazi efforts to win American hearts and minds. Not surprisingly, a propaganda war against Hollywood was always doomed to fail, but as ever, Benson reminds us that history, done right, can be great fun.” —Todd Farley, author of Making the Grades and New York Post contributor, on Hollywood vs. Nazis

“The book you are holding is a whirlwind tale, a roller-coaster ride through Hollywood history. Its cast of characters includes names such as Chaplin, Keaton, Valentino, Talmadge, and Monroe, lest we forget Hitler and Luciano. It’s got chills, thrills, romance, comedy, intrigue, and danger; it’s equal parts The Last Tycoon and Horatio Alger, except this story is real. Hell, somebody should make a movie out of this.” —Terence Winter, writer of The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, and The Wolf of Wall Street, on Moguls

“This illuminating book sheds light on brothers at least as influential as the Warners, but lesser known in cinematic popular culture.” —Library Journal on Moguls

“Michael Benson’s nonfiction masterpiece Gangsters vs. Nazis reads like speculative fiction at its very best, even though the incidents the book portrays are very much real. . . . One of the most rivetingly relevant reads I’ve ever encountered, chock-full of real-life heroes and villains who are every bit the match for the best that thriller fiction has to offer.” —Jon Land, The Providence Journal, on Gangsters vs. Nazis

“It is a colorful tale. It reads in many places like a mid-20th century Jimmy Cagney movie or Mickey Spillane novel come to life. It occurs in the same settings and the author uses the Runyonesque language of the genre. The mobsters deal out knuckle sandwiches and whack foes on the noggin. At one point Benson urges readers to think of one team as The Dirty Dozen with some Yiddish thrown in.” —Ricochet on Gangsters vs. Nazis

“Benson tells this little-known chapter of American Jewish history well and with passion. The prose is colorful and direct.” —New York Journal of Books on Gangsters vs. Nazis