Los Angeles in the 1930s: the WPA guide to the City of Angels
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Corporate Author: WPA Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Southern California (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press 2011
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Item Description:Previously published: New York : Hastings House, 1941, under the title Los Angeles : a guide to the city and its environs, as part of the American guide series. - With new introduction
Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-419) and index
Describes a pivotal moment in Los Angeles history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associations--and the mystique--for which the City of Angels is still known. Los Angeles in the 1930s a guide to the contemporary culture, with a brief L.A. history, revisiting the Spanish colonial period, the Mexican period, the brief California Republic, and finally American sovereignty
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (lxviii, 433 p.)
ISBN:0520268830
0520948866
9780520268838
9780520948860

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