{"product_id":"the-anaheim-beauties-valencia-queen-d-j-phinney-9781732903401","title":"The Anaheim Beauties Valencia Queen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE ANAHEIM BEAUTIES VALENCIA QUEEN\u003c\/strong\u003e takes readers back a century, to a time when the country was recovering from WWI, orange groves dominated southern California, Hollywood was a mecca for beautiful young women, and the Klan seemed to stand for God, family, country, and the American Way - or did it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking place in post WWI southern California, \u003cstrong\u003eTHE ANAHEIM BEAUTIES VLAENCIA QUEEN\u003c\/strong\u003e is a compelling, multilayered novel which proves that then, as now, validation rackets existed, seducing the lonely, the disenfranchised, the insecure, and the self-conscious, providing them with a sense of fitting in while luring them into behaviors beyond the pale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1924 the Ku Klux Klan took over Anaheim's city council, plus ten of eleven slots on the police force. In a Roaring 20's citrus-packing suburb of 10,000 people, where the ethics of Jay Gatsby collide with those of Elmer Gantry, an aspiring high school pitching phenom, fatherless Dean Reynolds, falls under the spell of drop-dead-gorgeous Helen Webber and her rich, agenda-driven father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelen, whose face graces orange crate labels shipped around the world, is using Dean as local arm-candy while sleeping her way through Hollywood. Her father and his \"connections\" all turn out to be Klansmen. After a shadowy motorcar accident kills a teammate on Dean's prom night, Dean has no one safe to turn to. But the Klan is there to \"help\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteeped in little-known California history, the story gives us characters whose problems, moral dilemmas, strengths and weaknesses are as relevant today as they were in 1924. Yesterday meets today in this provocative coming-of-age historical novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e D. J. Phinney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1732903409\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781732903401\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arroyo Willow Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.74d","brand":"D. J. Phinney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48800518570239,"sku":"9781732903401","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-anaheim-beauties-valencia-queen-d-j-phinney-9781732903401","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}