biNEW YORK TIMES iBESTSELLER - An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic iEdieib pJean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book iEdie American Girl, i an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick, which was edited with George Plimpton. Now, in iWest of Eden, i she turns to Los Angeles, the city of her childhood. Stein vividly captures a mythic cast of characters their ambitions and triumphs as well as their desolation and grief. p These stories illuminate the bold aspirations of five larger-than-life individuals and their families. iWest of Edeni is a work of history both grand in scale and intimate in detail. At the center of each family is a dreamer who finds fortune and strife in Southern California Edward Doheny, the Wisconsin-born oil tycoon whose corruption destroyed the reputation of a U.S. president and led to his own son's violent death Jack Warner, the son of Polish-Je