The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties Book

Here is a saga of the roaring twenties, with its glorification of business, its get-rich-quick mentality, and its paucity of government regulation--which bred speculation, corruption, and corporate chaos throughout the country. The Great Los Angeles Swindle exposes the schemes of C. C. Julian and his Julian Petroleum Corporation, known familiarly to thousands of Los Angeles residents as Julian Pete, thanks to Julian's folksy weekly newspaper ads. The Julian Pete swindle ranked with Teapot Dome as one of the great scandals of the era and symbolized the failure of 20s boosterism and speculation.Read More

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  • 0520207734
  • 9780520207738
  • Jules Tygiel
  • 21 December 1996
  • University of California Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 398
  • Reprint
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