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City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s

City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s

by Otto Friedrich

  • HISTORY
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 496 PAGES

Extensively researched and engaging, Friedrich's history of Hollywood in the 1940s is full of anecdote and insightful commentary. It's a detailed social history that looks at the glamour and corruption of L.A. with a keen intellectual eye. Part of Friedrich's trilogy of urban social histories that includes "Before the Deluge, A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920's" (GER11).  (CAL29, $29.95)


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