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City of Industry
Price (paper): $21.95
Price (cloth): $24.95
Subtitle: Genealogies of Power in Southern California
Authors: Victor Valle
Subject: American Studies
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5192-0
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4573-0
Pages: 336 pages
Publication Date: September 2011
Praise for City of Industry:
“The history of the tale of political intrigue, manipulation of state and local laws, monopolistic business practices, and outright bribery is revealed in City of Industry. Like a Progressive Era muckraker, Valle digs deeply into his evidence to dissect corruption on one level and raise a consciousness of what he sees as similar behavior on a much larger scale.”
—Southern California Quarterly, Winter 2010
"Immensely satisfying. Every resident of Los Angeles, and all who care about the future of American cities, should read this book—and soon."
—Western Historical Quarterly
"This important book should rightly take its place alongside such works as Mike Davis's City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear, Gray Brechin's Imperial San Francisco, and Donald Worster's Rivers of Empire on the shelf of standard noir literature on California's development. Reflecting Victor Valle's prize-winning talents as an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times, much of the narrative of City of Industry reads as well as a Dashiell Hammett novel."
—Michael R. Adamson, Pacific Historical Review
". . . a noirish revelation of power and secret history of L.A., this is a stunning non-fiction sequel to Robert Towne's Chinatown."
—Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz
"A wonderful, muckraking account of arrogance and the pursuit of economic power. Highly recommended."
—Choice
Description:
The Southern California suburb prophetically named City of Industry was founded in 1957. City of Industry is a stunning expose of the corporate privatization of California's redevelopment industry. Investigating an untapped archive of Industry's built landscape, media coverage, and public records, including sealed FBI reports, Victor Valle uncovers a cascading series of scandals. This suspenseful narrative gives the backstory of how new governmental technologies and engineering feats brought California to the brink of fiscal collapse.
About the Author:
VICTOR VALLE, a professor of ethnic studies at California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, is a former Los Angeles Times investigative reporter, a Pulitzer Prize winner, a coauthor of Latino Metropolis, and, most recently, a Radcliffe Fellow.
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