Paradise Promoted: The Booster Campaign That Created Los Angeles, 1870-1930

by Tom Zimmerman

With more than 250 photographs and rare ephemera, all collected by author Tom Zimmerman, Paradise Promoted is the first book to showcase the era from 1870 to 1930 when boosters developed the small town of Los Angeles into the city that would become Americas most cutting-edge metropolis. Los Angeles was the subject of the longest, loudest, most persistent promotional campaign in the history of the United States. Nothing was too exaggerated, absurd,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883318645
• ISBN13: 9781883318642
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Angel City Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 9.2"