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It had been more than twenty-five years since I had last spent more than a few consecutive weeks in Southern California.
From the rear cover
In "Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World," David Rieff looks at a city that was long the epitome of the American Dream and is now, for many, the emblem of the American urban nightmare. Writing before the riots of 1992, Rieff found not a city of dreams but a city of bitter contradictions. A city that, like the United States itself, was being transformed by immigrants and refugees from Latin America and East Asia from an extension of Europe to a diverse patchwork of the peoples of the world. This is an L.A. that has never been described before, "a brilliant and disturbing examination," as Joan Didion called it, "of the America we have not yet faced."
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- Title Los Angeles
- Author David Rieff
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Paperback
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Touchstone Books, New York
- Date 1992-09-19
- ISBN 9780671792107 / 0671792105
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9.06 x 6.1 x 0.67 in (23.01 x 15.49 x 1.70 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Dewey Decimal Code 979.494
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 08/03/1992, Page 0
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