Quotes About Cooke

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

Keeping the money supply in balance and avoiding panics depended on the intervention of Treasury officials, which was one of the things liberals hated about it. It also meant that men like Cooke and Gould cultivated those officials as well as congressmen and the president. Their fortunes depended up on it.

Cooke seemed invincible to competitors

AirWalker. With a name like that, it had to be Mitch Walker's plane. Was it possible she'd found herself a bush pilot with a poetic soul?

The most oft-repeated quote about Cooke, uttered behind his back, of course, came from Hearn: "He's the only man I've ever known," Chick would say, "who would like to die in his own arms.