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Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles

By Paul Haddad
Narrated by: Paul Haddad
Unabridged — 11 hours, 25 minutes
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By Paul Haddad
Narrated by: Paul Haddad
Unabridged — 11 hours, 25 minutes
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Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visionaries who had outsize influence on the city's growth: Phineas Banning, Harrison Gray Otis, Henry Huntington, Harry Chandler, William Mulholland, and Moses Sherman.

In the late 1870s, Los Angeles was a violent, dusty, 29-square-mile pueblo with a few thousand souls, largely unchanged since its founding in 1781. By 1930, its size had swelled to wi...