Paradise Promoted: The Booster Campaign That Created Los Angeles, 1870-1930 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781883318642)

With more than 250 photographs and rare ephemera, all collected by author Tom Zimmerman, Paradise Promoted is the first book to showcase the era from 1870 to 1930 when boosters developed the small town of Los Angeles into the city that would become Americas most cutting-edge metropolis. Los Angeles was the subject of the longest, loudest, most persistent promotional campaign in the history of the United States. Nothing was too exaggerated, absurd, or flat-out bizarre to be fodder for the relentless effort to convince Americans to slam the door forever on their home and sally forth to what booster supreme G.W. Burton called The fairest daughter among the sisterhood of cities in the world.

Author: Tom Zimmerman
ISBN-10: 1883318645
ISBN-13: 9781883318642
Publisher: Angel City Press
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2008
Pages: 207
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.57lbs
Size: 9.24h x 9.30w x 0.99d