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Author:
Peter Lunenfeld
Publisher:
Viking
Date:
August 11, 2020
An account of the uniquely creative spirit and bustling cultural ecology of contemporary Los Angeles.
What The Reviewers Say
Readers with an interest in modern U.S. history, pop culture, and art and architecture should find this to be engaging..
... a major book about Los Angeles — unless you’re an Angeleno. At its best, the book shares McWilliams’s bountiful gift for anecdote, the dumbfounded glee of a happy transplant like Banham and Davis’s compassion for those traditionally airbrushed out of the picture.
Lunenfeld draws surprising links between the artistic, economic, and political milieus of Los Angeles in this immersive cultural history.
A kaleidoscopic view of Los Angeles that looks beyond stereotypes of 'freeways, sprawl, movie stars, and New Age nonsense'.
