Bibliography
Among the books reviewed in preparing “A history of paradise” were:
Jackie Robinson: A Life Remembered by Maury Allen
El Alisal: Where History Lingers by Jane Apostol
Painting with Light: A Centennial History of the Judson Studios by Jane Apostol
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies by Reyner Banham
Los Angeles: Epic of a City by Lynn Bowman
Los Angeles: Biography of a City, edited by John and LaRee Caughey
Ride the Big Red Cars: How Trolleys Helped Build Southern California by Spencer Crump
Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of its Mexcian Past by William Deverell
Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America by Douglas Flamming
A Guide to Architecture in Los Angeles and Southern California by David Gebhard and Robert Winter
Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis by Greg Hise
Arroyo Craftsman, a 1999 reprint by The Judson Studios
The City: A Global History by Joel Kotkin
Landscapes of Desire: Anglo Mythologies of Los Angeles by William Alexander McClung
William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles by Catherine Mulholland
My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 by Becky M. Nicolaides
Los Angeles: The End of the Rainbow by Merry Ovnick
Los Angeles: A to Z by Leonard Pitt
Hoyt Street: an Autobiography by Mary Helen Ponce
Jackie Robinson: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad
I Never Had it Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson by Jackie Robinson
The San Fernando Valley: America’s Suburb by Kevin Roderick
Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Concourse of Los Angeles by Kevin Roderick and J. Eric Lynxwiler
The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of the City by Joseph Rykwert
Under the Sky in California by Charles Francis Saunders
La Reina: Los Angeles in Three Centuries, a 1929 publication of Security Trust and Savings Bank
Excerpts from Southern California’s Architectural Heritage by Terry Silo
Americans and the California Dream: 1850-1915 by Kevin Starr
Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era by Kevin Starr
Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s by Kevin Starr
American Character: The Curious Life of Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Rediscovery of the Southwest by Mark Thompson
Henry Edwards Huntington: A Biography by James Thorpe
L.A. El Pueblo Grande by John D. Weaver
Places of their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twenieth Century by Andrew Wiese
