Boyle Heights. How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy, Paperback - George J. Sanchez

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): George J. SanchezNumber of pages: 390Collection: American CrossroadsPublication date: 2022Dimen...

Reducere. The radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood. "When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters...

Reducere. Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history....

Reducere. The success and survival of American democracy have never been guaranteed. Political polarization, presidential eccentricities, the trustworthiness...

Reducere. Boyle Heights was one of the earliest residential areas outside of Los Angeles's original pueblo. From the 1920s through the 1950s, it was the city...

Reducere. What if our neighbors were our friends? When Lynda MacGibbon moved from a small city in eastern Canada to a high-rise apartment in Toronto, she dec...

It has been called the political crime of the century: This book from Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Greg Miller uncovers for the ...

An important work of scholarship that should be read by anyone concerned with America's future. --Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World...

Reducere. DescriptionA leading member of the Senate Judiciary Committee "spells out, in considerable detail, the extent of corporate influence over a variety...

An expanded and revised version of our guide How To Find Old LA, this book delves deep into the City Of Angels' best-preserved treasures - from a r...

Contributor(s): Author: Mary L. DudziakIn 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two do...

Reducere. She has been called America's princess - and with good reason. Long before she married a prince, Grace Kelly had the looks and bearing of royalty. ...

A vivid and fast-paced history, Gary May's Bending toward Justice offers a dramatic account of the birth and precarious life of the 1965 Voting Rig...

Reducere. In J. L. Torres's second story collection Migrations, the inaugural winner of the Tomás Rivera Book Prize, a "sucio" goes to an underground clinic ...

Reducere. The City of Angels? No burg this side of the Pearly Gates could live up to such a moniker, and L.A. isn't even trying. You won't see many inhabitan...

Reducere. Sir Romeo Beau is a sweet and unique basset hound service-work doggie. In recent years, basset hounds have increasingly been used as therapy dogs b...

A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.'s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiraciesNo metropolis has been more loved or more ha...

Reducere. Through people-to-people encounters, we expand our sense of mutual understanding and respect.Welcome Back to Abuja Once Again: How I Became a Citiz...

Reducere. The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the ...

Los Angeles in the American Journals of Petru Comarnescu and Stelian Tanase - Georgiana Lolea

Thom Andersen's Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003), hailed as "a city symphony in reverse, " challenges whether the movies have ever really depicted L...

The first book taking stock of a new left generationPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Raina LipsitzNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Reducere. Seoul Food is a creative non-fiction book about the lives of second-generation Korean Americans growing up in Los Angeles County-the Mecca for the ...

Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election produced the biggest political scandal in a generation. An essential guide for anyone int...

Publisher: Hatje CantzAuthor(s): Francesca BriaNumber of pages: 64Collection: Critical TheoryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 209 x 141 x 13Cover ...

Description'This is essential' Margaret Atwood on Twitter'The single best book that I have read about the populist, authoritarian trend that is rem...

Engstrom and Roberts show how politicians use ballot design to influence voting and elections. This book is of interest to the broad community of s...

Reducere. Thompson's investigative chops are impressive. --SIERRA MAGAZINE San Juan County, Utah, contains some of the most spectacular landscapes in the wor...

Reducere. In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small t...

Reducere. We need young people to be civically engaged in order to define and address public problems. Their participation is important for democracy, for in...

An action-packed historical novel whose charismatic characters take the reader from the roaring twenties to the fiery nineties in America's favorit...

Description"Put on your hiking shoes, pack your binoculars, and rediscover the City of Angels." --Westways Magazine Los Angeles may have a reputati...

Reducere. Reveals the important role of Muslim Americans in American politics Since the 1950s, and especially in the post-9/11 era, Muslim Americans have pla...

This book explores the fundamental shift that has occurred in America and Britain as elites accumulate unprecedented capital and influence and a me...

DescriptionFacundo Bernal's A Stab in the Dark (Palos de ciego) is a poetic chronicle of the struggles and joys of the Spanish-speaking community i...

Reducere. DescriptionColin Dayan has one of the most original minds in America and also one of the fiercest. Here for the first time she turns her rigorous i...

Going Low examines how the offensive style of contemporary politics challenges liberal democratic institutions. Considering the rise of illiberal p...

Amid gloomy forecasts of the decline of the humanities and the death of poetry, Angus Fletcher, a wise and dedicated literary voice, sounds a note ...