Edited sentence: "Angel City" is a thinly veiled pseudonym for Los Angeles."Beach City" has a strong resemblance to Long Beach, California where Upton Sinclair lived for a brief period., bears a some resemblance to the oil baron Edward Doheny.The father of "Bunny", Ross Sr.The founder of "Southern Pacific" University has numerous parallels to Joseph Whidney, the founder of the University of Southern California.Trivia - Although the authors states at the outset of the book that most of the characters are fictional, it is difficult not to draw historical comparisons