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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
699 pages (large print) ; cm
Description
Describes the internal struggle in early-twentieth-century New Orleans between the city's upper crust and the underworld, focusing on the head of the red light district, who fought to keep his vice business at the top in a wicked city.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
10 CDs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California-bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges-seemed destined to remain scrappy farmland. Then, as if overnight, one of the world's iconic cities emerged. At the heart of Los Angeles' meteoric rise were three flawed visionaries: William Mulholland, an immigrant ditch-digger turned self-taught engineer, designed the massive aqueduct that would make urban life here possible....
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