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Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles
Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles
Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles
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Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles

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The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood’s glitzy façade, exposing the city's ugly underbelly of corruption, crime, and murder. These two spectacular dead bodies, one found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947, the other found dead in her home in August 1962, bookend this new history of Hollywood. Short and Monroe are just two of the many left for dead after the collapse of the studio system, Hollywood’s awkward adolescence when the company town’s many competing subcultures—celebrities, moguls, mobsters, gossip mongers, industry wannabes, and desperate transients—came into frequent contact and conflict. Hard-Boiled Hollywood focuses on the lives lost at the crossroads between a dreamed-of Los Angeles and the real thing after the Second World War, where reality was anything but glamorous."
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Release dateApr 19, 2017
ISBN9780520959910
Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles
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Jon Lewis

Jon Lewis is an independent thinker. He likes to hear all sides of a situation before making up his own mind. He likes to apply science and history to all situations. He is surprised that he is alone here. He has attended meetings of the Democrat Party, Republican Party, and Tea Party. He enjoyed them all. He has an advanced degree in physics and has had two careers. First was as an engineer and second as owner of a business in the health insurance area. He has one copyright in computer software. When working as an engineer he worked part time in real estate and life insurance. Can I Help You was his first book. All who read it loved it. Some couldn’t put it down until finished. Help Save America is his second book. Again all who read it loved it. Want A Good Retirement is his third book. Just published so no reviews yet Child Guidance has started but will be awhile before published. 

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