This is the story of the most powerful of Hollywood's famed tycoons-the stalwart, rambunctious, dynamic Louis B. Mayer who became the highest-salaried man in the United States only to see his self-made monument tumbled and crumbled to dust around his feet. It is a glamorous story studded with big names from the Golden Age of motion pictures: Thalberg and Schenck, Selznick and Goldwyn, and the great films from Ben-Hur and The Big Parade to The Good...