| Los Angeles Contributor(s): Rieff, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0671792105 ISBN-13: 9780671792107 Publisher: Touchstone Books OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1992 Annotation: In "Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World," David Rieff looks at a city that was long the epitome of the American Dream and is now, for many, the emblem of the American urban nightmare. Writing before the riots of 1992, Rieff found not a city of dreams but a city of bitter contradictions. A city that, like the United States itself, was being transformed by immigrants and refugees from Latin America and East Asia from an extension of Europe to a diverse patchwork of the peoples of the world. This is an L.A. that has never been described before, "a brilliant and disturbing examination," as Joan Didion called it, "of the America we have not yet faced." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - History | United States - State & Local - General - Political Science |
| Dewey: 979.494 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.1" W x 9.06" (0.90 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Geographic Orientation - California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Writing before the riots of 1992, Rieff found not a city of dreams but a city of bitter contradictions. A city that, like the United States itself, was being transformed by immigrants and refugees from Latin America and East Asia from an extension of Europe to a diverse patchwork of the peoples of the world. This is an L.A. that has never been described before. With a new afterword. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rieff, David: - David Rieff is the author of eight previous books, including Swimming in a Sea of Death, At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention; A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis; and Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West. He lives in New York City. |