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

288 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

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, real...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...