Los Angeles - Softcover

David Rieff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857990366 ISBN 13: 9781857990362

Publisher: Phoenix, 1993

Synopsis

Rieff gives Miami the treatment it deserves, said The New York Times Book Review of his first book, Going to Miami. Now he looks at L.A., that city of dreams, radically changed by waves of immigrations, and finds a preview of America in the 21st century.

About this title

From the Back Cover

In "Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World," David Rieff looks at a city that was long the epitome of the American Dream and is now, for many, the emblem of the American urban nightmare. Writing before the riots of 1992, Rieff found not a city of dreams but a city of bitter contradictions. A city that, like the United States itself, was being transformed by immigrants and refugees from Latin America and East Asia from an extension of Europe to a diverse patchwork of the peoples of the world. This is an L.A. that has never been described before, "a brilliant and disturbing examination," as Joan Didion called it, "of the America we have not yet faced."

About the Author

David Rieff is the author of eight previous books, including Swimming in a Sea of Death, At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention; A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis; and Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West. He lives in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Phoenix
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857990366
• ISBN 13: 9781857990362
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272