| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City. By Robert Gottlieb, Mark Vallianatos, Regina M. Freer, and Peter Dreier. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. x, 279 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-520-23999-7. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-520-24000-6.)

As the title indicates, this is a book with a very heavy orientation toward the present and future. It is part history, part policy analysis, and part manifesto. It is explicitly devoted to a vision of "Progressive L.A.," defined by the authors as "an emerging social change movement concerned with issues of social and economic justice, democracy, and livability" (p. 5). The authors collaborated on each chapter (and the journalist Harold Meyerson also coauthored chapter 5), so the structure and tone are well integrated. The book alternates between historical reviews of progressive (left-liberal) movements in Los Angeles throughout the twentieth century and analyses of social and political conditions in the city (and often the larger metropolis) over the past decade or so. The appendix, titled "A Policy Agenda for the Next L.A.," is a detailed platform crafted by a coalition of progressive groups for the 2001 City of Los Angeles mayoral campaign.

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