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Joseph and Nicholas Schenck may not be household names like Louis B. Mayer or the Warner brothers but they were infinitely more powerful, influential -and ruthless as the groundbreaking pioneers of the Hollywood Dream Factory! We hope you’ll join us while we zoom live with Moguls’ authors Michael Benson and Craig Singer at our library (or zoom from home). A pair of Russian immigrants, the Schenck brothers turned their small nickelodeon business in New York’s Bowery into a partnership with Loew’s movie theaters and a controlling interest in the three major studios: 20th Century Fox, MGM, and United Artists. The brothers definitely had ties with the mob -thus there were lots of scandals! To learn more, please tune in! Register online below.

About the authors: Michael Benson is the author of more than sixty books. Some of his titles are: Gangsters VS Nazis; Who’s Who in the JFK Assassination; The Devil at Genesee Junction Killer Twins, Mommy Deadliest and Betrayal in Blood. Along with author Frank Dimatteo, Michael co-wrote the acclaimed Carmine the Snake, Mafia Hit Man and Lord High Executioner. Michael appears regularly on the Discovery Channel show ID: Investigation and is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Award. Michael lives in New York.

Craig Singer is former Disney executive and Emmy-nominated director, producer, writer and filmmaker. A few of the movies he directed and produced are: Animal Room (1995), A Good Night to Die (2003). Dark Ride (2006), Perkins’14 (2009). His most current film is 6:45 (2021), which earned multiple awards. Craig lives in New Jersey. Moguls is his first book.