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Wide-ranging Insights

Revisado: 06-02-23

Through the lens of the 'bum blockade', the author presents a comprehensive discussion of California and Los Angeles' visions in the 1920s and 1930s, of the rest of the country and themselves. Beginning with the contrast between Los Angeles and Modoc County, the book steadily addresses the use and mechanics of vagrancy laws, Los Angeles' efforts to close itself off, and the rippling effects of decisions made at the California borders during the Great Depression, from effects on the power structure of Depression-era L.A., litigation over the Privileges or Immunities Clause, and a murder at the end. In terms of nits, the assignment of Davis as the villain from the outset was quick, and I would be interested in a book that took a favorable view of his tenure as a counterweight; also, I do not know how well the events in the book correspond to contemporary politics, which is a concern at the start and end of the book. Overall, though, this is an immersive and well narrated discussion of the Golden State in the second quarter of the 20th century and as someone who enjoys stories and histories from that era, I gained a great deal.

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