Dane Pederson > Status Update

Well written and documented history of the growth of the southland, L..A. it includes fascinating details of the entrenched political, racial, socio-economic power dynamics. Written at the end of the Eighties, (updated in the Naughts) it pulls together the aspirational drive and traumatic encounters of generations of Angelenos who populate the city of angels, of sun and flowers & valleys compromising the la-la land.