City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los… by Mike Davis · Audiobook preview

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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Authored by Mike Davis
Narrated by Tim Campbell
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias. In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel West-a city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity. In this new edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city's current status.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mike Davis is the author of several books, including City of Quartz, Buda's Wagon, Ecology of Fear, Planet of Slums, and (with Jon Wiener) Set the Night on Fire. He is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Diego.
Tim Campbell is the Audie and AudioFile Earphones Award-winning voice of hundreds of audiobook titles in almost every literary genre.
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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS
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Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Media Inc
Published on: April 3, 2018
ISBN: 9781977377043
Duration: 15 hr, 39 min
Genres: History / General, History / Social History, History / United States / General, History / United States / State & Local / General, History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)