Errol Wayne Stevens (68 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 44 pages, frontis, illustration. Laid in is a letter from The Arthur H. Clark Company stating that for your support, we are sending a keeps Trail Sake which was produced in corporation with the Western History Association and the Los Angeles Corral of the Westerners, Only a few copies remained after distribution. This book was produced as a keepsake for the 1987 Western History Association conference.…

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. In Pursuit of Utopia: Los Angeles in the Great Depression. Book.

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Paperback. Condition: New. During the Great Depression, the Los Angeles area was rife with radical movements. Although many observers thought their ideas unworkable, even dangerous, Southern Californians voted for them by the tens of thousands. This book asks why. To find answers, author Errol Wayne Stevens takes readers through the history of such movements as the Utopian Society, Dr. Francis Townsend's old-age revolving pension plan, Upton Sinclair's End Poverty in California gubernatorial campaign, and Retirement Life Payments, known as Ham and Eggs. The book also examines the Los Angeles Communists and the free-market capitalists, both quasi-religious movements with large followings, as well as the self-help cooperatives, a spontaneous upsurge of neighbors who came together to help one another in a time of desperate need. As to these movements' extraordinary popularity, Stevens finds the standard explanations unpersuasive. He debunks the idea that naÏve, unsophisticated Southern Californians, living aimless, empty lives, suffering from ennui, and longing for community, readily supported charismatic leaders who promised a way out of the Great Depression. In Stevens's telling, Southern Californians supported these movements because they spoke to their needs. Fearful or desperate, some elderly and hopeless, Angelenos cared less about the programs' feasibility than about their promise of relief. As one Ham and Eggs supporter succinctly explained: "It may be a racket and maybe it won't work more than a couple of weeks, but that will be $60 more than I ever got before for one vote." Finding parallels between past and present, readers might wonder why people remain loyal to programs that prove unrealistic, or why voters continue to support leaders who reveal, time and again, their ignorance or dishonesty. In its illumination of a troubled time in American history not so long ago, this book offers insight into our own.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. About fine in pale blue cloth with gilt title lettering. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. No markings, no bookplate. 44 pages. Laid in is a printed slip of paper indicating the book is a gift to members of the Los Angeles Corral of The Westerners. Keepsake #25. …

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Paperback. Condition: New. When the depression of the 1890s prompted unemployed workers from Los Angeles to join a nationwide march on Washington, "Coxey's Army" marked the birth of radicalism in that city. In this first book to trace the subsequent struggle between the radical left and L.A.'s power structure, Errol Wayne Stevens tells how both sides shaped the city's character from the turn of the twentieth century through the civil rights era.On the radical right, Los Angeles's business elite, supported by the Los Angeles Times, sought the destruction of the trade-union movement-defended on the left by socialists, Wobblies, communists, and other groups. In portraying the conflict between leftist and capitalist visions for the future, Stevens brings to life colorful personalities such as Times publisher Harrison Gray Otis and Socialist mayoral candidate Job Harriman. He also re-creates events such as the 1910 bombing of the Times building, the savage suppression of the 1923 longshoremen's strike, and the 1965 Watts riots, which signaled that L.A. politics had become divided less along class lines than by complex racial and ethnic differences.The book takes stock of the rivalry between right and left over the several decades in which it repeatedly flared. Radical L.A. is a balanced work of meticulous scholarship that pieces together a rich chronicle usually seen only in smaller snippets or from a single vantage point. It will change the way we see the history of the City of Angels.…

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Cloth. Condition: Very good. No Jacket. 44p. Signed by editor on half title page. Endpapers and first few pages foxed. "This publication has been produces as a keepsake for the 1987 Conference of the Western History Association held in Los Angeles, California." B&w illustrations. (9-1/4"x6-1/4").

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