Publication subTitle :The WPA Guide to the City of Angels
Author: Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration
Publisher: University Of California Press
Publication year: 2011
E-ISBN: 9780520948860
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780520268838
Subject: K7 Americas History
Keyword: 美洲史
Language: ENG
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Description
Los Angeles in the 1930s returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A.’s 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. Many books in one, Los Angeles in the 1930s is both a genial guide and an addictively readable history, revisiting the Spanish colonial period, the Mexican period, the brief California Republic, and finally American sovereignty. It is also a compact coffee table book of dazzling monochrome photography. These whose haunting visions suggest the city we know today and illuminate the booms and busts that marked L.A.’s past and continue to shape its future.