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Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
Maybe someday
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67/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Eric Nusbaum
Publisher:
PublicAffairs
Date:
March 24, 2020
To clear space for Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles tore down low-income housing with a large Latinx community. Nusbaum tells the stories of the people whose homes were destroyed, their conflict with the bureaucrats and money men of Los Angeles, and shows how their lives were overrun by the wheel of history.
What The Reviewers Say
Stealing Home is a scrupulously detailed account, written in novelistic, economical prose.
Nusbaum...takes a deep dive into that story from the point of view of one family, as well as a few other figures lost to history, save for the excellent research he has done here. However, there are times when readers might wonder why Nusbaum has bothered to include some seemingly minor details that have no bearing on the overall story, other than to use those uncovered nuggets, such as the tragic death of a young boy or the marital infidelities of a resident of the pre-Dodger Stadium area. He is taking a big risk that his audience will stick with this meandering tale to get to the payoff. Frankly, there are other books that do a more effective job of reporting how the move from Brooklyn to L.A. all fell into place. Stealing Home is more about the people.
A well-known tale of racial injustice given a fresh look.
