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Jack Webb's Los Angeles, a Southern California paradise built on confidence games and real estate booms, swindlers and boondoggles, is indeed "the city." But it is not the only one, as Ronald Schmidt makes clear in this critical look at the little-examined foundation of L.A.'s political culture.

This Is The City

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    A Paperback by R Jr.

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      Publisher MP - University Of Minnesota Press
      Published 1/15/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780816641918
      978-0816641918
      ISBN-10 0816641919
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      Book Synopsis

      Jack Webb's Los Angeles, a Southern California paradise built on confidence games and real estate booms, swindlers and boondoggles, is indeed "the city." But it is not the only one, as Ronald Schmidt makes clear in this critical look at the little-examined foundation of L.A.'s political culture.

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