The great Los Angeles swindle : oil, stocks, and scandal during the Roaring Twenties by Jules Tygiel - 1994

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Oxford University Press, USA, 1994-04-21. Hardcover. Good.

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New York. 1994. Oxford University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 019505489x. 398 pages. hardcover. keywords: History Los Angeles Scandal Oil America 1920s Stocks. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Here is a saga of the roaring twenties, with its glorification of business, its get-rich-quick mentality, and its paucity of government regulation-which bred speculation, corruption, and corporate chaos throughout the country. The Great Los Angeles Swindle exposes the schemes of C. C. Julian and his Julian Petroleum Corporation, known familiarly to thousands of Los Angeles residents as Julian Pete, thanks to Julian's folksy weekly newspaper ads. The Julian Pete swindle ranked with Teapot Dome as one of the great scandals of the era and symbolized the failure of 20s boosterism and speculation. inventory #27667 ISBN: 019505489x.

New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. xviii, 398 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Gently browsed, clean copy. Dust jacket price-clipped on the front flap. "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… Read More