An edition of The Battle for Beverly Hills: A City's Independence and the Birth of Celebrity Politics
(2018)
The battle for Beverly Hills
a city's independence and the birth of celebrity politics
First edition.
by Nancie Clare
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The untold history of Beverly Hills and how, against all odds, it remained an independent, exclusive, and glamorous enclave through the efforts of Hollywood’s film pioneers.
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Rich people, Social conditions, Celebrities, Biography, History, California, history, California, biography, Beverly hills (calif.), HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & CriticismPeople
Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Will Rogers, Adolph Zukor, Florenz Ziegfeld, A. Zetterburg, Judge Louis R. Works, Louis R. Works, William Workman, Thomas Lee Woolwine, J.K. Woolwine, Woodrow Wilson, Benjamin Davis Wilson, Gregory Paul Williams, Harvey Wilcox, Edward Wilcox, Daeida Wilcox, Max Whittier, H.G. Wells, Lillian Wellburn, John Wayne, George Washington, Jack Warner, Frances Marion, James Marshall, Louis B. Mayer, William McAdoo, George McBride, J.M. McFarland, Robert McKim, Douglas McLean, Andrew McNally, Rand McNally, James B. McNamara, John J. McNamara, Mary Miles Minter, Tom Mix, James R. Mock, Owen Moore, J.P. Morgan, Oliver Morosco, Marion Morrison, Louis Mountbatten, William Mulholland, Jack Munson, Al Murphy, George Murphy, Conrad Nagel, Edwin Neff, Wallace Neff, Pola Negri, Fred K. Niblo, Richard Nixon, Mabel Normand, Mary O'Hara, Frederick Law Olmsted, Harrison Gray Otis, Norman Pabst, Raymond Page, Force Parker, Kent Kane Parrot, Henry Peavey, Kathryn Perry, Mary Phagan, Clara Phillips, Charlotte Pickford, Jack Pickford, Arthur Pillsbury, Gaspar de Portola, H.F. Prince, Virginia Rappe, Charles Ray, Ronald Reagan, Frederic Remington, Hal Roach, Harry Robinson, J.W. Robinson, Virginia Robinson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, A.J. Salisbury, Joseph M. Schenck, Paul E. Schwab, Arnold Schwarzenegger, William Selig, Lewis J. Selznick, William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Charlotte Shelby, Lowell Sherman, Maria Shriver, Gladys Louise Smith, John Smith, A.L. Sonderegger, John G. Soulay, Silsby Spalding, Ed E. Spence, Jerry Springer, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Kevin Starr, Frederick K. Stearns, Irving Stone, Colonel Sufton, Beth Sully, Beth Fairbanks, Gloria Swanson, William Howard Taft, William Desmond Taylor, Bernard Thomas, Olive Thomas, Fred Thompson, Fred Thomson, C.E. Toberman, John Toberman, William I. Traeger, Ivan Traucht, Donald Trump, Walter Tuller, Charles Ullman, Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman, Eugenio Valdez, Sebastian Valdez, Vicente Valdez, Maria Rita Valdez Villa, Rudolph Valentino, Alberto Vargas, Jesse Ventura, Vicente Villa, Howard Chandler Christy, Haskell Coffin, George M. Cohan, Josephine Cohan, Mickey Cohen, Ronald Colman, Wilbur David Cook, Calvin Coolidge, Noël Coward, Ralph Adams Cram, Charlie Crawford, George Creel, George Cryer, R.J. Culver, Jake Dansinger, Clarence Darrow, Marion Davies, Richard Harding Davis, Priscilla Dean, Maude Delmont, Cecil B. deMille, William C. deMille, Frank G. Denison, Charles Denker, Walter M. Dickie, Neal Dodd, Edward Doheny, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Melvyn Douglas Arthur Conan Doyle, Marie Dressler, Olive Duffy, Minta Durfee, Amelia Earhart, Clint Eastwood, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, John Emerson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ella Fairbanks, John Fairbanks Jr., John Fairbanks Sr., Robert Fairbanks, B.J. Firminger, Fred Fischbach, Harrison Fisher, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Clark Fogg, Victoria Forde, John B. Fox, William Fox, Leo Frank. Al Franken, Michael A. Fratantoni, John C. Frémont, Merrell Gage, Greta Garbo, Myrtle Gebhart, William Gibbs, Charles Dana Gibson, Margaret Gibson, C.G. Gillespie, King Gilette, Dorothy Gish, Lillian Gish, Steve Glassell, Tracey Goessel, F.R. Goudrey, S.C. Graham, Burton Green, Elmer Grey, C.G. Griffin, Corinne Griffin, D.W. Griffith, Henry Hammel, Henry Hancock, Francis Haney, Ned Harding, Warren G. Harding, Mildred Harris, Will Hayes, Will H. Hays, William Randolph Hearst, Francis J. Henry, Charlotte Hennessey, John Pickford Hennessey, Frank Homer, George James Hopkins, David Horsley, William Horsley, Henry E. Huntington, Thomas H. Ince, Elsie Janis, Kirk Johnson, William Joyce, Buster Keaton, Helen Keller, Joseph P. Kennedy, William G. Kerckhoff, Asa Keyes, Claude Kimball, Raphael Kirchner, Michael Korda, Sheila Kuehl, Carl Laemmle, Robert Lansing, Cedric Larson, Jesse L. Lasky, Tom Lehrer, Harrison Lewis, Frederick Liedtke, Charles Lindbergh, J.B. Lippincott, Harold Lloyd, Sue Lloyd, Marcus Loew, Paul de Longpré, Anita Loos, Ernst Lubitsch, Blackie Madsen, William J. Mann, Ella March, Juan Bautista Alvarado, Charles Anderson, Lewis Anderson, Margaret Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Stanley Anderson, Roscoe Arbuckle, Lucille Ball, Theda Bara, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, David Belasco, Edison A. Benedict, Pierce Benedict, Enid Bennett, W. Biscailuz, Charlie Blair, Margaret Boag, Sonny Bono, Hobart Bosworth, Clara Bow, E.R. Bowen, Matthew Brady, Walter Brem, Kevin Brownlow, William Jennings Bryan, Pearl S. Buck, Billie Burke, William John Burns, Charles A. Canfield, Charles Caitlin, Harry Chandler, Charlie ChaplinShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Battle for Beverly Hills: A City's Independence and the Birth of Celebrity Politics
2018, St. Martin's Press
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The battle for Beverly Hills: a city's independence and the birth of celebrity politics
2018, St. Martin's Press
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Table of Contents
Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas and the Invention of Beverly Hills
The Beverly Hills Hotel and the Birth of Its Namesake City
Setting the Stage
A Crash Course in Influence
Veni, Vidi, Vici
The War Against Hollywood and the Lasting Legacy of Bad Behavior
Meanwhile, in Beverly Hills ...
"California's Floating Kidney Transplanted from the Midwest"
Dramatis Personae
Playing with Fire
On Their Own.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-263) and index.
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