Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles

by Paul Haddad

Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visionaries who had outsize influence on the city's growth: Phineas Banning, Harrison Gray Otis, Henry Huntington, Harry Chandler, William Mulholland, and Moses Sherman.

In the late 1870s, Los Angeles was a violent, dusty, 29-square-mile pueblo with a few thousand souls, largely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595801278
• ISBN13: 9781595801272
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Santa Monica Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"