"In An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, Neal Gabler tells how the studio moguls--all immigrants and outsiders--created an "America" that was more "American" than the country ever could be. They formed a "cluster of images and ideas--so powerful that, in a sense, they colonized the American imagination." And Americans, aping those images, ultimately became them. "As a result, the paradox--that the movies were quintessentially American while the men who made them were not-- doubled back on itself," Gabler writes. "By creating their idealized America on the screen, the Jews reinvented the country in the image of their fiction."