Description
Now the TNT Original Series MOB CITY
Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as the white spot of America, a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of pleasure girls and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men--one L.A.' s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief--each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city.
Author: John Buntin
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 04/06/2010
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780307352088
ISBN10: 0307352080
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
- History | United States | 20th Century
Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as the white spot of America, a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of pleasure girls and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men--one L.A.' s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief--each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city.
Author: John Buntin
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 04/06/2010
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780307352088
ISBN10: 0307352080
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
- History | United States | 20th Century
About the Author
JOHN BUNTIN is a staff writer at Governing magazine, where he covers crime and urban affairs. A native of Mississippi, Buntin graduated from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and has worked as a case writer for Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. A former resident of Southern California, he now lives in Washington, D.C., with his family.