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Jack Webb's Los Angeles, a Southern California paradise built of confidence games and real estate booms, swindles and boondoggles, is indeed the City. But it is not the only one, as Ronald Schmidt makes clear in this critical look at the little-examined foundation of L.A.'s political culture.Schmidt reveals how the political culture of Southern California is structured by over a century's worth of efforts to exhort citizens to emulate models of virtue and to coerce them to imitate models of passive behavior. This Is the City traces this effort to script the city's social life, demonstrating how democratic pedagogy and popular media have been used to advance a utopian vision of government. In a history peopled by outsized characters like Harrison Gray Otis, first publisher of the L.A. Times, and studio moguls Louis B. Mayer and Jack Warner, Schmidt shows how Angeleno elites, from media mavens to the militaristic heroes of the LAPD, have offered themselves as models of civic virtue and have used popular culture and political rhetoric to consolidate their power and remake the city in their image. Schmidt argues that the political education provided by L.A. elites has been intentionall

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Author

Ronald J. Schmidt Jr.

Publisher

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816641901

Category

history

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities

Rating

5 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14