Los Angeles : Capital of the Third World

Rieff David:

ISBN 10: 0224033042 / ISBN 13: 9780224033046

Published by London Jonathan Cape 1992, 1992

About this Item

1st UK edition(1991) larger 8vo pp270 bw maps VG-/VG+ History and analysis of California's metropolis. Ex library withdrawn stamped, with front endpaper torn out at library. Still a nice copy.

Seller Inventory # 4009

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Los Angeles : Capital of the Third World
• Publisher: London Jonathan Cape 1992
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224033042
• ISBN 13: 9780224033046
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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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.

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."