"Sam Wasson's supremely entertaining new book, The Path to Paradise, tracks the ups and downs, ins and outs, of a remarkable career. A marvel of unshowy reportage." - New York Times "Wasson's account will hold immense appeal for any film buff interested in the era, as will the cast of Mr. Coppola's peers, proteges and adversaries ranging from John Milius to Steven Spielberg and Michael Cimino. The already thick lore around the absolutely berserk production of Mr. Coppola's Apocalypse Now gets an additional layer, but equally fascinating is the exploration of ambitious failures like 1981's One From the Heart and big-budget flops like 1984's The Cotton Club." - Wall Street Journal "Hollywood's ultimate oral history . a hard book to put down.

The special virtue of Basinger and Wasson's work is its seamlessly sequential organization . With a net cast this wide, many glimmering fish are drawn up." - Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker "Unparalleled in its scope and vision . Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson are two of our best chroniclers of Hollywood's past, but this collaboration marks their most ambitious work yet . Offers a unique first-hand account of the industry's founding and ever-evolving approaches." - Entertainment Weekly "The secrets of Tinseltown burn bright in this collection of interviews culled from the American Film Institute's archives and assembled by film scholar Basinger and author Wasson . The commentary crackles with humorous anecdotes and acerbic insights . The result is a fascinating conversation about Hollywood's magical blending of art and commerce.

" - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Before now, writing a biography of Francis Ford Coppola has been like aiming at a moving target. Wasson . has deftly judged the moment. The effect is like movie cross-cutting, vivid with changing event and contrast. That Coppola saw further than others into the future of film is argued persuasively." - Financial Times.