| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.3

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Book Review

Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s. Edited by Tom Sitton and William Deverell. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xii + 371 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. $55 cloth; $22.50, paper.)

Los Angeles, perennial city of the future, has had to work hard for recognition as a significant city of the past. But it has been some time now since the phrase "Los Angeles history" could be misconstrued as the set-up line to a Johnny Carson joke, and the signal works of Carey McWilliams and Robert Fogelson-once forced into the service of supporting virtually every historical footnote to the city's past-have come to occupy an increasingly crowded shelf. The nation's second city has at last acquired its deserved quantity of literary sprawl. . . .

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