City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles Dark Humor Adapted for the 1955 film

Adapted for the 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan introducing James Dean

With more than 350 photographs and astonishing production values not seen since the legendary Flair magazine of the 1950s

Edited by Henry Glassie

kaleidoscopic panoply of voices - living and dead

sympathetic nature

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles Dark Humor Adapted for the 1955 filmThis new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is as central to the L. A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies (New Yorker) No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, Los Angeles brings it all together. To detractors, L. A. is a sunlit mortuary where you can rot without feeling it. To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide ranging work of social history, Los