Zev's Los Angeles: From Boyle Heights to the Halls of Power. A Political Memoir

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Titel: Zev's Los Angeles : From Boyle Heights to the Halls of Power. A Political Memoir

Enthält: Frontmatter
Contents
“I Will Love You Forever, if You Let Me”: A Dedication to Barbara Edelston Yaroslavsky (1947–2018)
Introduction
1. Roots of a Legacy: Shimon Soloveichik
2. My Parents: Minna and David
3. The Sandman Awakens
4. Coming of Age
5. The Walls Have Ears
6. “Why Zev?”
7. Be Indispensable to Your Constituents
8. The Taxpayer and Renter Revolt
9. The Untold Story of the 1984 Olympics
10. Taking on the LAPD
11. Big Money and the Battle to Preserve Neighborhoods
12. The Mayor’s Race That Never Was
13. Sudden Change
14. Designed Not to Govern
15. The Crisis That Nearly Bankrupted the County
16. The Transit Revolution
17. Arts and Culture: Los Angeles’ Golden Age
18. God Isn’t Making Mountains Anymore
19. Confronting the Homeless Crisis
20. Tragedy and Resurrection at MLK Hospital
21. Every Cause Needs a Champion
22. Witness to History
23. Who Could Have Imagined?
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Source Endnotes
Index

Beteiligte: Yaroslavsky, Zev [VerfasserIn]; Getlin, Josh [MitwirkendeR]

Erschienen: Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, [2023]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (360 p.)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9798887191683

ISBN: 9798887191683

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Schlagwörter: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political ; City government, Los Angeles, local, Homelessness, Martin Luther King Hospital, Jewish Los Angeles, Los Angeles Arts and Culture, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), 1984 Olympics, Los Angeles real estate development, transit and transportation, health care, Los Angeles City, Los Angeles County, Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles politics, Tom Bradley, Richard Riordan, Daryl Gates, 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest, Rodney King, political corruption

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: “…[A] compelling history of our city’s last half century, as conveyed through the life of one of our most impactful leaders. …”— Los Angeles Mayor Karen BassThis is the story of Zev Yaroslavsky, the son of Ukrainian Jews who immigrated to the United States in the early 1920s. His memoir charts the journey of a young social activist who battled to free Soviet Jews before becoming one of the most consequential elected officials in Southern California. Fiercely independent, he combined an activist’s passion with a seasoned politician’s skill to challenge the region’s power brokers. He fought the Los Angeles Police Department’s excessive force and political spying policies, led the effort to ban local taxes from funding the 1984 Olympics, teamed with President Clinton to avert a catastrophic county bankruptcy, helped develop L.A.’s modern transit system, won a bruising battle with real estate interests to save the Santa Monica Mountains from rapacious development, and was pivotal in the development of Walt Disney Concert Hall and the modernization of the iconic Hollywood Bowl. “I may be part of the establishment,” he said on the day he was first sworn into office, “but the establishment is not part of me.”

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