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PublisherSanta Monica Press
ISBN-101595801278
ISBN-139781595801272
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Book TitleInventing Paradise : the Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles
Number of Pages404 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2024
TopicUnited States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), United States / General, Historical
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorPaul Haddad
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight24.7 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2025-421113
SynopsisInventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visionaries who had outsize influence on the city's growth: Phineas Banning, Harrison Gray Otis, Henry Huntington, Harry Chandler, William Mulholland, and Moses Sherman. In the late 1870s, Los Angeles was a violent, dusty, 29-square-mile pueblo with a few thousand souls, largely unchanged since its founding in 1781. By 1930, its size had swelled to within 96% of its current 468 square miles, housing a staggering 1.2 million people. In just 50 years, L.A. had joined the ranks of other world-class cities. In the tradition of Mike Davis's classic work City of Quartz , Paul Haddad ( Freewaytopia and 10,000 Steps a Day in L.A. ) debunks many myths about the City of Angels with a wildly entertaining narrative that sheds new light on the fascinating birth of modern Los Angeles. Power came from a select few, whose triumphs, scandals, and correspondence are well documented in Inventing Paradise , along with other little-known facts about L.A. history, including: How Los Angeles Times chief Harry Chandler pushed eugenics and endorsed "white spots" Henry Huntington's and Moses Sherman's trolley systems and the extortion-type practices that led to their expansion When Los Angeles was so desperate for water, it hired a miracle worker who promised rain How L.A.'s power elite peddled the lie that the Owens River used to flow into Los Angeles and rightfully belonged to the city When Los Angeles annexed a city in which monkeys cast votes How Venice, California, was not the first Venice, California William Mulholland's game-changing construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which raised the city's population ceiling from 250,000 to 2.5 million Haddad also covers the heavy costs that came with creating paradise in such a short period of time, including car dependency, environmental problems, and deep-seated inequities between wealthy white Angelenos and people of color due to racist policies. All have left an imprint on present-day Los Angeles. Los Angeles is a city that should not exist--and yet it does. Through Inventing Paradise , Haddad shows readers that Los Angeles is not a paradise found, but a paradise that was willed into existence, owing to the collective vision of these six Gilded Era-born tycoons., Written by a local author with a successful track record ( Freewaytopia , 10,000 Steps a Day in L.A. ) There has never been a book that pinpoints the birth of modern Los Angeles to these six specific influential people Significant journalists and historians will contribute endorsements Though a title on the history of Los Angeles, there are present-day lessons regarding oil, water, the media, transportation (rail vs. cars), cronyism, corruption, and environmental pollution
LC Classification NumberF869.L857H33 2024
