8.5: Suggested Readings
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- Balio, Tino, Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930–1939 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). An examination of nearly every aspect of the industry.
- Bottles, Scott L., Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987). A good account of the relation between the expansion of Los Angeles and the automobile.
- La Chapelle, Peter, Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007). Focuses on the country music that was introduced to Los Angeles by the Okie migration.
- McWilliams, Carey, Southern California Country: An Island on the Land (New York: Duell, Sloane & Pearce, 1946). One of the classic works on California; never unbiased, McWilliams wrote with the freshness that comes from personal observation.
- Sanchez, George J., Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). A major contribution to understanding the experience of Mexican Americans in the early 20th century.
- Selvin, David F., A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996). Thorough and well written, Selvin’s book also conveys the intensity of feeling of the strikers.
- Sitton, Tom, and Deverell, William, eds., Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001). An anthology that treats many of the important elements in the growth of Los Angeles during the 1920s.
- Starr, Kevin, Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990). A sweeping account of southern California in the 1920s based upon a wide range of material.
- ________, Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996). Continues Starr’s account of the state’s development, with rich details and balanced interpretations.
- Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath (New York: Viking, 1939). Nothing matches this novel for its depiction of the Okies and of California farm workers in the 1930s.
- Tygiel, Jules, The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994). A lively account of the financial manipulations of C. C. Julian cast against Los Angeles in the 1920s.
- Weber, Devra, Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). An incisive analysis of cotton growing, especially the agricultural work force, and its relation to government.
- Yung, Judy, Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995). An exhaustively researched study from about 1900 to World War II.