Los Angeles as the City of Dreams, and Nightmares
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Leo Braudy reviews Gary Krist’s The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles which tells the story of early-20th-century Los Angeles through three of its most prominent residents: William Mulholland, D.W. Griffith, and Aimee Semple McPherson.
Image: Hollywood, circa 1905, courtesy USC Libraries, California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
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Tom on August 6, 2018
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