Mid-century Los Angeles. Behind the public image of the Dragnet-era LAPD lay a hidden world of “pleasure girls,” crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make.  Into this underworld came two men: L.A.'s most notorious gangster, Mickey Cohen, and its most famous police chief, William H. Parker, each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city. The decades-long entanglement of these two kingpins shaped modern American policing and helped create the Los Angeles we know today.

L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City (Hardcover)

By John Buntin

$26.00

ISBN-13: 9780307352071
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Crown, 8/2009

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