Title: Los Angeles: from mission to modern city.
Authors: Nadeau, Remi A.
Publisher: Longmans, Green,
Year: 1960
Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.) History
Abstract: A history of Los Angeles from the time when America achieved control of the previously Spanish dominated area, to the present when this tremendous and chaotic metropolis must work toward discouraging the growth of its booming population.
Contents: "Tourist go home!" -- Angels on horseback -- Gringos on foot -- Death of the dons -- Birth of the boosters -- Bring on the midwest -- Uncle Collis meets his match -- Ed Doheny digs a hole -- Henry Huntington's wonderful red cars -- A suitcase full of dynamite -- The cash value of climate -- Water war -- High tension -- Wings for the angels -- Enter the moviemakers -- Classic nonconformists -- Angel, first and second class -- Politics in paradise -- the cutured Barbarians -- Los Angeles oversells itself -- Last of the boosters.