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  • The Los Angeles Sugar Ring

    Inside the World of Old Money, Bootleggers & Gambling Barons

    by Michael Niotta ...
    In this intimate true crime biography, the author recounts his great grandfather's journey from local grocer to Prohibition-era crime boss.Sicilian immigrant "Big George" Niotta did exceptionally well for a grocery wholesaler. That's because his biggest clients were bootleggers. He delivered hundreds of pounds of sugar to illegal liquor operations across California, supplying an essential ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Los Angeles Underworld

    by Avi Bash, J. Michael Niotta PhD ...
    Series series Images of America
    From the blackhanders and bootleggers of the early 20th century to political corruption and the rise and eventual toppling of a Mafia family, the history of organized crime in Los Angeles visually chronicled within this work possesses the same level of intrigue, glamour, and murder as the films that made the City of Angels iconic. Los Angeles Underworld showcases an extraordinary collection of ... Read more

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  • Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

    The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

    by Richard White ...
    A new, incisive history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War.The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating panics in the U.S. economy. Their dependence on public largess drew them into the corridors of ... Read more

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  • Crow Killer, New Edition

    The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson

    by Raymond W. Thorp Jr., Robert Bunker, Nathan E. Bender ...
    The movie Jeremiah Johnson introduced millions to the legendary mountain man, John Johnson. The real Johnson was a far cry from the Redford version. Standing 6'2" in his stocking feet and weighing nearly 250 pounds, he was a mountain man among mountain men, one of the toughest customers on the western frontier. As the story goes, one morning in 1847 Johnson returned to his Rocky Mountain trapper's ... Read more

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  • The Hollywood Studios

    by Ethan Mordden ...
    Hollywood in the years between 1929 and 1948 was a town of moviemaking empires. The great studios were estates of talent: sprawling, dense, diverse. It was the Golden Age of the Movies, and each studio made its distinctive contribution. But how did the studios, "growing up" in the same time and place, develop so differently? What combinations of talents and temperaments gave them their signature ... Read more

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  • Cattle Kingdom

    The Hidden History of the Cowboy West

    by Christopher Knowlton ...
    **"The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!" —Douglas Brinkley, The New York Times–bestselling author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for AmericaThe open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed. Cattle Kingdom ... Read more

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  • The Streets Are Blue

    True Tales of Service from the Front Lines of the Los Angeles Police Department

    by Gary Farmer ...
    In 1869, the police force in Los Angeles went from a voluntary to a paid city police force. Since then, thousands upon thousands of men and women have served on the Los Angeles Police Department. In this book, thirty-four former officers share stories of their experiences in police work in their own words. Of the thirty-four, the first officer came on in 1941 and the last officer retired in 2009, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Presidential Courage

    Three Speeches That Changed America

    by Warren Kozak ...
    What is the secret alchemy of great presidential leadership? Presidential Courage, Three Speeches That Changed America by Warren Kozak discovers the answer through three speeches and three presidents who faced the greatest challenges in American history. And by their lead and through their words, they transformed a nation.On the night of June 6, 1944, President Franklin Roosevelt addressed an ... Read more

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  • The Port of Los Angeles

    by Michael D. White ...
    Series series Images of America
    The epic of the Port of Los Angeles was initiated more than 150 years ago by a handful of visionaries and entrepreneurs who exploited both fortunate and outrageous circumstances to transform a tidal mudflat into the world's largest man-made harbor. Phineas Banning and archrival Augustus Timms were among the first to realize the potential of the coastal dent on the map called San Pedro Bay in the ... Read more

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  • Notorious Two-Bit Street

    by Lyle J. Barnes ...
    NOTORIOUS TWO-BIT STREET is a history of three city blocks in the midst of a Mormon community in Ogden Utah that were dramatically infected with vice crime immorality gambling and drinking following the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. The Mormons had immigrated to Utah to escape the persecution they had suffered in three previous locations on the frontier finally settling in the ... Read more

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  • Shameful Victory

    The Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the Hidden History of Chavez Ravine

    by John H. M. Laslett ...
    On May 8, 1959, the evening news shocked Los Angeles residents, who saw LA County sheriffs carrying a Mexican American woman from her home in Chavez Ravine not far from downtown. Immediately afterward, the house was bulldozed to the ground. This violent act was the last step in the forced eviction of 3,500 families from the unique hilltop barrio that in 1962 became the home of the Los Angeles ... Read more

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  • Racial Propositions

    Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California

    by Daniel Martinez HoSang ...
    Series Book 30 - American Crossroads
    This book looks beyond the headlines to uncover the controversial history of California's ballot measures over the past fifty years. As the rest of the U.S. watched, California voters banned public services for undocumented immigrants, repealed public affirmative action programs, and outlawed bilingual education, among other measures. Why did a state with a liberal political culture, an ... Read more

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