| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s. Ed. by Tom Sitton and William Deverell. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xii, 371 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-520-22626-7. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-520-22627-5.)

Historians are constantly in search of watersheds, turning points, and pivotal events in their quest to understand why an era evolved as it did. Is it possible to isolate a single decade to explain why a major American city emerged as a metropolis? This is the task of fifteen historians who examine Los Angeles during the 1920s in a collection of remarkably fresh essays edited by Tom Sitton and William Deverell, Metropolis in the Making. The essays, which are arranged topically in five sections, examine a wide breadth of Los Angeles's rapid growth and development, culture, and people during this decade, and each author argues convincingly that the changes Los Angeles experienced were so profound that they collectively set the stage for the modern metropolis that we witness today. . . .

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