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Laddar... Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angelesav Michael Gross
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Mr. Gross often seems to be ticking off descriptions of places he hasn’t seen. Some of them no longer exist or have been heavily renovated, which makes the job that much harder. He winds up with a “can you top this?” catalog of so-called amenities: Who had the monkey house? Who had the Wurlitzer carousel? Who had five kitchens, one of them highly ventilated and devoted to “spicy” (i.e. odiferous) food? This kind of information can be remarkably uninteresting when it is piled into a 488-page heap.
Michael Gross, chronicler of America's rich and powerful, goes west to uncover the very secret history of Los Angeles, specifically those wealthiest and most private of enclaves--Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Holmby Hills, and Beverly Park--through their most mind-boggling estates, and the fascinating, fabulous folks who created and populate them. Gross begins with the mob-driven history of the newest mega-mansion district in L.A., Beverly Park. Using the century-long evolution from adobe huts to $100 million mansions as the baseline of the story, he reveals how a few powerful and often ruthless oil and railroad magnates imposed their idyllic vision of the good life on the Los Angeles landscape to create the legendary communities known as the Platinum Triangle. But the stories of these homes are just a window onto the lives of their owners and occupants over the course of the twentieth century.--From publisher description. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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