Los Angeles in the 1930s

By WPA Writers Program Of The Work Projects Administration In Southern California.

Describes a pivotal moment in Los Angeles history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associations--and the mystique--for which...

Dear Los Angeles

By David Kipen

"David Kipen scoured the archives of libraries, historical societies, and private estates to assemble a kaleidoscopic view of Los Angeles from the Spanish missionary expeditions in the 1500s to the...

The schreiber theory

By David Kipen

California in The 1930s

By David Kipen, Federal Writers Federal Writers Project Of The Works Progress Administration

Dear Los Angeles

By Edited By David Kipen

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...

Los Angeles in the 1930s

By David Kipen

San Francisco in the 1930s

By David Kipen

Dear California

By David Kipen

Karen Halverson

By David Kipen, Karen Halverson

Dear Los Angeles

By Edited By David Kipen

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...