The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties by Tygiel, Jules

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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

Oxford University Press, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/DJ Very Good. 6x1x10. Dust Jacket in very good condition. Unmarked clean pages. Clean cover.