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Los Angeles in the 1930s: The Wpa Guide to the City of Angels Paperback - 2011 - 1st Edition

by Federal Writers Project of the Works Pro; Introduction by David Kipen


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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.

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  • Title Los Angeles in the 1930s: The Wpa Guide to the City of Angels
  • Author Federal Writers Project of the Works Pro; Introduction by David Kipen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 504
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press
  • Date 2011-04-05
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780520268838 / 0520268830
  • Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.18 x 5.5 x 1.32 in (20.78 x 13.97 x 3.35 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Cultural Region: Southern California
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Cultural Region: West Coast
    • Geographic Orientation: California
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Urban Studies
    • Locality: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
  • Library of Congress subjects Los Angeles (Calif.), Los Angeles (Calif.) - Social life and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010940089
  • Dewey Decimal Code 917.949

About the author

The Federal Writers Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) not only provided jobs and income to writers during the Depression, it created for America an astounding series of detailed and richly evocative guides, recounting the stories and histories of the 48 states (plus Alaska Territory and Puerto Rico) and many of the country's major cities. David Kipen served for five years as Director of Literature at the National Endowment for the Arts, where he led the Big Read initiative, and for seven years as book editor and book critic of the San Francisco Chronicle. He operates a lending library/used book store in Los Angeles called Libros Schmibros, and he is also the author of The Schreiber Theory: A Radical Rewrite of American Film History and translator of Cervantes' The Dialogue of the Dogs.
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