When the depression of the 1890s prompted unemployed workers from
Los Angeles to join a nationwide march on Washington, "Coxey's
Army" marked the birth of radicalism in that city. In this first
book to trace the subsequent struggle between the radical left and
L.A.'s power structure, Errol Wayne Stevens tells how both sides
shaped the city's character from the turn of the twentieth century
through the civil rights era.
On the radical right, Los Angeles's business elite, supported by
the Los Angeles Times, sought the destruction of the trade-union
movement--defended on the left by socialists, Wobblies, communists,
and other groups. In portraying the conflict between leftist and
capitalist visions for the future, Stevens brings to life colorful
personalities such as Times publisher Harrison Gray Otis and
Socialist mayoral candidate Job Harriman. He also re-creates events
such as the 1910 bombing of the Times building, the savage
suppression of the 1923 longshoremen's strike, and the 1965 Watts
riots, which signaled that L.A. politics had become divided less
along class lines than by complex racial and ethnic
differences.
The book takes stock of the rivalry between right and left over
the several decades in which it repeatedly flared. "Radical L.A."
is a balanced work of meticulous scholarship that pieces together a
rich chronicle usually seen only in smaller snippets or from a
single vantage point. It will change the way we see the history of
the City of Angels.
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