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Dreamers and Schemers

- How an Improbable Bid for the 1932 Olympics Transformed Los Angeles from Dusty Outpost to Global Metropolis
Af: Barry Siegel Engelsk Hardback

Dreamers and Schemers

- How an Improbable Bid for the 1932 Olympics Transformed Los Angeles from Dusty Outpost to Global Metropolis
Af: Barry Siegel Engelsk Hardback
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How one man brought the Olympics to Los Angeles, fueling the city's urban transformation. Dreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeles’s pursuit and staging of the 1932 Olympic Games during the depths of the Great Depression helped fuel the city’s transformation from a seedy frontier village to a world-famous metropolis. Leading that pursuit was the “Prince of Realtors,” William May (Billy) Garland, a prominent figure in early Los Angeles. In important respects, the story of Billy Garland is the story of Los Angeles. After arriving in Southern California in 1890, he and his allies drove much of the city’s historic expansion in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Then, from 1920 to 1932, he directed the city’s bid for the 1932 Olympic Games. Garland’s quest to host the Olympics provides an unusually revealing window onto a particular time, place, and way of life. Reconstructing the narrative from Garland’s visionary notion to its consequential aftermath, Barry Siegel shows how one man’s grit and imagination made California history.
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How one man brought the Olympics to Los Angeles, fueling the city's urban transformation. Dreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeles’s pursuit and staging of the 1932 Olympic Games during the depths of the Great Depression helped fuel the city’s transformation from a seedy frontier village to a world-famous metropolis. Leading that pursuit was the “Prince of Realtors,” William May (Billy) Garland, a prominent figure in early Los Angeles. In important respects, the story of Billy Garland is the story of Los Angeles. After arriving in Southern California in 1890, he and his allies drove much of the city’s historic expansion in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Then, from 1920 to 1932, he directed the city’s bid for the 1932 Olympic Games. Garland’s quest to host the Olympics provides an unusually revealing window onto a particular time, place, and way of life. Reconstructing the narrative from Garland’s visionary notion to its consequential aftermath, Barry Siegel shows how one man’s grit and imagination made California history.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9780520298583
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0520298586
Kategori: Olympiske & paralympiske lege
Udg. Dato: 29 okt 2019
Længde: 23mm
Bredde: 236mm
Højde: 161mm
Forlag: University of California Press
Oplagsdato: 29 okt 2019
Forfatter(e): Barry Siegel
Forfatter(e) Barry Siegel

Kategori Olympiske & paralympiske lege

ISBN-13 9780520298583

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 272

Udgave

Længde 23mm

Bredde 236mm

Højde 161mm

Udg. Dato 29 okt 2019

Oplagsdato 29 okt 2019

Forlag University of California Press

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