L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City

by John Buntin

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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.
  • ISBN10 0307352072
  • ISBN13 9780307352071
  • Publish Date 27 August 2009 (first published 1 January 2009)
  • Publish Status Remaindered
  • Out of Print 18 March 2014
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Harmony Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 419
  • Language English