A Connected Metropolis: Los Angeles Elites and the Making of a Modern City, 1890–1965 1496224329, 9781496224323

In A Connected Metropolis Maxwell Johnson describes Los Angeles’s rise in the early twentieth century as catalyzed by a

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A Connected Metropolis: Los Angeles Elites and the Making of a Modern City, 1890–1965
1496224329, 9781496224323

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