Dear Los Angeles. The city in diaries and letters, 1542 to 2018
✍ Scribed by David Kipen
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Modern Lib. Inc
- Year
- 2018;2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 298 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0812984439
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
A rich mosaic of diary entries and letters from Marilyn Monroe, Cesar Chavez, Susan Sontag, Albert Einstein, and many more, this is the story of Los Angeles as told by locals, transplants, and some just passing through.
"Los Angeles is refracted in all its irreducible, unexplainable glory." --Los Angeles Times
The City of Angels has played a distinct role in the hearts, minds, and imaginations of millions of people, who see it as the ultimate symbol of the American Dream. David Kipen, a cultural historian and avid scholar of Los Angeles, has scoured libraries, archives, and private estates to assemble a kaleidoscopic view of a truly unique city.
From the Spanish missionary expeditions in the early 1500s to the Golden Age of Hollywood to the strange new world of social media, this collection is a slice of life in L.A. through the years. The pieces are arranged by date--January 1st to December 31st--featuring selections from...