This Is the City: Making Model Citizens in Los Angeles

ISBN-13: 9780816641918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 180 str.

Ronald J. Schmidt

Opis

Rather than presenting a comprehensive history of Los Angeles, Schmidt (political science, U. of Southern Maine) traces attempts to script the city of angels with an idealistic civic identity. He illuminates three defining influences in influencing the city's urban culture: Los Angeles Times' publisher Harrison Gray Otis in the 1880s, Hollywood i