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Dreamers and Schemers
- Author
- Barry Siegel
- Narrator
- Charles Constant
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 10 December 2019
- Run Time
- 7 hours 29 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Barry Siegel
- Narrator
- Charles Constant
- Duration
- 7 hours 29 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 December 2019
- ISBN
- 9781541431171
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- History, History of the Americas, Local history, Olympic and Paralympic games, Sport: general, History of sport, History of the Americas, History of the Americas
Synopsis
Dreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeles's pursuit and staging of the 1932 Olympic Games during the depths of the Great Depression helped fuel the city's transformation from a seedy frontier village to a world-famous metropolis. Leading that pursuit was the "Prince of Realtors," William May (Billy) Garland, a prominent figure in early Los Angeles. In important respects, the story of Billy Garland is the story of Los Angeles. After arriving in Southern California in 1890, he and his allies drove much of the city’s historic expansion in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Then, from 1920 to 1932, he directed the city's bid for the 1932 Olympic Games. Garland's quest to host the Olympics provides an unusually revealing window onto a particular time, place, and way of life. Reconstructing the narrative from Garland's visionary notion to its consequential aftermath, Barry Siegel shows how one man's grit and imagination made California history.
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