Empty bio of a man whose legacy is his work

There is a yawning gap (or two) in this biography of possibly the greatest ever independent film producer. While we learn about (or have validated) all of his supposed character quirks, and of his background and of the origin connections he shared with other moguls of the era, there doesn’t seem to have been any attempt to try to understand or explain the key thing that makes his life of interest, I.e. that he all but invented the role of the independent producer and was supremely successful at it.
We don’t even learn what the Producer really does.
There’s a short allusion to the fact that he (Sam) made thousands of key decisions about all his movies, but this is undermined by a more concerted attempt to afdiem him as uncultured and uncreative.
Roddy McDowell reads well enough but chooses to impersonate what I suspect is a reasonable approximation of Goldwyn actual voice (because Rodsy would probably have know it and there seems no other reason to fashion such a curious timbre) but it’s very distracting and feels like the action of playground bullies (to exaggerate an aspect of a persons speech to ridicule them).
There are few if any stories about the genesis of his movies, and with the exception of Stella Dallas and Best Years of Our Lives, no insight into the process of movie making at all, much less the specific contributions of The Producer.
An interesting question is posed about ‘what is the signature of a Sam Goldwyn movie’, but the apparent absence of an obvious trope or stylistic quirk, is then used to suggest he brought nothing to his own films and perhaps they are just a collection of other peoples successes (Directors).
I say this, see his very long list of wonderful films and make your own mind up about him from those, what’s in here is rather petty and small. Imagine hearing all the kids who knew Churchill as a ten year old complaining about his personality traits and being asked to judge the man, knowing he led Britain through WW2 to victory, but being given no clue as to how he did it.
I’m still watching and enjoying many his films, as are many millions of people, and I say that’s enough.

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