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ECOLOGY OF FEAR: LOS ANGELES AND THE IMAGINATION OF DISASTER.(Review)
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March 12, 1999|
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ECOLOGY OF FEAR: LOS ANGELES AND THE IMAGINATION OF DISASTER By Mike Davis Henry Holt, 384 pages, $27.50
The Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau proclaims -- or threatens -- that Los Angeles is "The Cultural Capital of the 21st Century." Mike Davis offers a different, darker vision: Los Angeles as an expensive apocalyptic theme park. He lists the 1992 riots ($1 billion in damage), 1993 firestorms ($1 billion), 1994 Northridge earthquake ($42 billion) and 1995 floods ($500 million). "First the natives rioted, then nature," writes Davis.
In recent ...
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr., liberal U.S. historian OBITUARY
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
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Magazine article from: Newsweek
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Magazine article from: National Review
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Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., who chronicled the Kennedy era, at 89
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., who chronicled the history of...historian George Bancroft. His father, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, was himself a distinguished...teaching at Ohio State University when Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger (he later changed...
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr., historian, adviser to JFK, dies
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; ...03-02-2007 Arthur Schlesinger Jr., historian, adviser...Editions Biographical: ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER JR NEW YORK — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr...his personal past. "Arthur was a trusted friend...father's middle name, Meier. Family friends included...
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News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
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Newspaper article from: News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL)
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Kennedy Insider Schlesinger Dies at 89
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