Land of Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural History of Los Angeles by Vincent Brook

Land of Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural History of Los Angeles

Vincent Brook

301 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Unlike the more forthrightly mythic origins of other urban centers--think Rome via Romulus and Remus or Mexico City via the god Huitzilopochtli--Los Angeles emerged from a smoke-and-mirrors process that is simultaneously literal and figurative, re...

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