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Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait
Maybe someday
30
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
54/100Critics
6/100Scholars
Author:
Nick Davis
Publisher:
Knopf
Date:
September 14, 2021
The grandson of Hollywood legend Herman Mankiewicz and great-nephew of Joe Mankiewicz offers a dual biography of these film-industry giants as well as personal reflections on a dysfunctional family.
What The Reviewers Say
As Herman’s grandson, [Davis] is an insider in the Mankiewicz saga.
The brothers had a complex relationship, fraught with jealousy and competition but also love, and Davis recounts it with feeling, drawing on fastidious research.
Fans of the movie Mank will be intrigued by this blend of memoir and biography from the grandson of Herman Mankiewicz and great-nephew of Joe.
... a lively, anecdote-filled chronicle of the two men’s lives as Hollywood movers and shakers.
