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by Barry Siegel
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"Dreamers and Schemers brings alive the rollicking era when Los Angeles came of age, even as the world plunged into war and the Great Depression. What a remarkable tale. This is masterful storytelling."--Gay Talese
"Barry Siegel brilliantly evokes a complex drama: the misery of the Great Depression, a flood of desperate migrants coming into Southern California, relentlessly optimistic boosterism promoting the first summer Olympics on US soil in nearly thirty years--and an extraordinary, larger-than-life character at the center of the story."--Adam Hochschild, author of Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays "Dreamers and Schemers is engrossing, outlandish, fascinating, and a reading delight. It pulls the curtain back on a great piece of LA history--the 1932 Olympics--and manages to tell the entire story of the city's rise. A pleasure for anyone who loves a well-told tale."--Susan Orlean, author of The Library BookDetails
- Title Dreamers and Schemers: How an Improbable Bid for the 1932 Olympics Transformed Los Angeles from Dusty Outpost to Global Metropolis
- Author Barry Siegel
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780520298583 / 0520298586
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.3 x 1 in (23.11 x 16.00 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Library of Congress subjects City planning - California - Los Angeles, Garland, William May
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019009743
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.48
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