L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City by John Buntin Paperback Book

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Rent L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City

Author: John Buntin

Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD

Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)

Published: Apr 2010

Genre: History - United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy)

Retail Price: $17.00

Pages: 419

Synopsis

Now the TNT Original Series MOB CITY

Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men—one L.A.' s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief—each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city.

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