Los Angeles, Capital of the Third World - Softcover

Rieff, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857990366 ISBN 13: 9781857990362

Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1993

Synopsis

David Rieff went to Los Angeles just before the city was devastated by the worst rioting in 25 years. It came as no surprise, for instead of fantasies of material bliss come true, he found a fractured city transformed by the new immigrants from Asia and Latin America.

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 auhor of Going to Miami. His work has appeared in Esquire, Harper's, The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.

Edition details

• Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857990366
• ISBN 13: 9781857990362
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272