The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles by Gary Krist

The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles

Gary Krist

432 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history informative fast-paced
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From bestselling author Gary Krist, the story of the metropolis that never should have been and the visionaries who dreamed it into reality Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California--bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by desert...

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