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Margaret Leslie Davis

Born

February 19, 1958

Website

https://margaretlesliedavis.com/

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Margaret Leslie Davis is a graduate of Georgetown University and earned her master's in professional writing at the University of Southern California. ...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 988 ratings · 137 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles 4.11 avg rating — 324 ratings — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mona Lisa in Camelot: How Jacqueline Kennedy and Da Vinci's Masterpiece Charmed and Captivated a Nation 3.90 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 2008 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Side of Fortune: Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny 4.16 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Culture Broker: Franklin D. Murphy and the Transformation of Los Angeles 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bullocks Wilshire 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Los Angeles Biltmore: The Host of the Coast 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teenage Mutant Artists: The Art and Lives of the Real Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, And.... 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Purse Strings of Phoebe Appleton Hearst: Fortune, Vision, and Dreams for Her Son, William Randolph Hearst 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Music Center of Los Angeles County: The First 50 Years 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	2 Books +DVD! 1)The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis:A Portrait in Her Own Words(with DVD) 2) Mona Lisa in Camelot: How Jacqueline Kennedy and Da Vinci's Masterpiece Charmed and Captivated a Nation 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Printing meant arranging the letters into words, the words into perfectly straight lines, and the lines into even blocks of text to be inked and pressed onto paper or vellum. And each small step of the process, which sounds so mundane today, required invention.”
― Margaret Leslie Davis, The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey

tags: books, history, printing

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“As historian Albert L. Hurtado wrote, "War, pestilence, and famine blow books around the planet like so many hostages to uncertain fortune. Thieves steal, vandals deface, pious clergy burn, and worms eat books. Whether threatened by worms or war, there is nothing permanent about books and libraries.”
― Margaret Leslie Davis

tags: books, impermanence, libraries, temporary-life-of-books, transitory, vulnerability

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“hundreds of decorated automobiles and elaborate floats, one featuring a roaring lion, declawed for the occasion but symbolizing the fierce determined spirit of the city, was turned out for two hundred and fifty thousand gasping Angelenos thronged in the streets to marvel at in wondrous civic pride.”
― Margaret Leslie Davis, Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles

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