I swear, this is like reading a Raymond Chandler novel, but it's all real! I had no idea where this book was going to take me, but I couldn't jump off the train. In the end, I knew so much more about life in the '20s, '30s and '40s in Los Angeles. I loaned my copy to another L.A.-ophile and he won't give it back to me. That's OK, the prices are dropping now, so I'll buy a couple more. Let me know what you think of it. By the way, you can read excerpts by clicking on the Amazon.com link below. I think I read a third of the book online for free before I had to get a copy of my own.
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Showing posts with label 1930s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1930s. Show all posts
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Here's one you won't be able to put down. One of the best books on LA. corruption in the first half of the 20th Century
I swear, this is like reading a Raymond Chandler novel, but it's all real! I had no idea where this book was going to take me, but I couldn't jump off the train. In the end, I knew so much more about life in the '20s, '30s and '40s in Los Angeles. I loaned my copy to another L.A.-ophile and he won't give it back to me. That's OK, the prices are dropping now, so I'll buy a couple more. Let me know what you think of it. By the way, you can read excerpts by clicking on the Amazon.com link below. I think I read a third of the book online for free before I had to get a copy of my own.
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