Bill Lascher

The Golden Fortress

California's Border War on Dust Bowl Refugees. Sprache: Englisch.

gebunden , 304 Seiten

ISBN 1641606045

EAN 9781641606042

Veröffentlicht August 2022

Verlag/Hersteller Chicago Review Press

€ 26,50 inkl. MwSt.

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Beschreibung

"Myths of the Golden State's abundance enticed thousands of Americans uprooted by the Depression, but those who created those myths saw only invading criminal 'hordes' that they believed just one man could stop: James 'Two-Gun' Davis, Los Angeles's authoritarian police chief. [This book] tells the story of Davis's audacious deployment of hand-picked armed police slamming California's door on America's Dust Bowl refugees and Depression-displaced migrants. It depicts the sometimes deadly consequences of law enforcement politicized and weaponized against the poor, even in remote places like Modoc County, where a sheriff's opposition to the blockade inflamed an already smoldering feud between an itinerant newsman and a publisher obsessed with her California heritage"--

Portrait

Bill Lascher is the author of Eve of a Hundred Midnights, a 2017 Oregon Book Awards finalist. Lascher wrote the American History Tellers podcast's Great Depression series. His journalism appears in outlets like Atlas Obscura, Fortune, the Guardian, the Portland Monthly, and Boom: A Journal of California. He previously edited the Ventura County Reporter and was a staff writer at the Pacific Coast Business Times. A graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Lascher has a history degree from Oberlin and a master's degree in specialized journalism from the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism and Communication.