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.
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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.
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