Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles

by John Mack Faragher

Book Overview

Eternity Street tells the story of a violent place in a violent time: the rise of Los Angeles from its origins as a small Mexican pueblo. In a masterful narrative, John Mack Faragher relates a dramatic history of conquest and ethnic suppression, of collective disorder and interpersonal conflict. Eternity Street recounts the struggle to achieve justice amid the turmoil of a loosely governed frontier, and it delivers a piercing look at the birth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393051366
• ISBN13: 9780393051360
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.8" x 9.5"