Land of Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural History of Los Angeles

by Vincent Brook

Book Overview

Unlike the more forthrightly mythic origins of other urban centers--think Rome via Romulus and Remus or Mexico City via the god Huitzilopochtli--Los Angeles emerged from a smoke-and-mirrors process... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081355456X
• ISBN13: 9780813554563
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"