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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xviii, 398 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear. "In Los Angeles in the 1920s, C.C. Julian and the Julian Petroleum Corporation were household words, and the Julian Pete swindle ranked with Teapot Dome as one of the great scandals of the era. It symbolized not merely what FDR would call 'a decade of debauchery of group selfishness,' but the failed hopes and dreams of the great boom of the 1920s. Indeed, no single story captures the essence of that decade in America--its boosterism and rampant speculation, its entrepreneurial mania for mergers, its overlap of business and politics, and its infatuation with wealth, whiskey, and Hollywood glamor--quite so well as the Julian Petroleum swindle. The Great Los Angeles Swindle begins with a murder (the sudden courtroom shooting of banker Motley Flint, the debonaire movie financier and city booster), ends with a spectacular suicide in Shanghai (where C.C. Julian downs a…
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- Title The Great Los Angeles Swindle
- Author Jules Tygiel
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Paperback
- Pages 398
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
- Date 1996-12
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780520207738 / 0520207734
- Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.06 x 1.05 in (23.39 x 15.39 x 2.67 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Julian Petroleum Corporation, Petroleum industry and trade - Corrupt
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96008918
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.168
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