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The Culture Broker: Franklin D. Murphy and the Transformation of Los Angeles.

Publication: California History
Publication Date: 01-SEP-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Culture Broker: Franklin D. Murphy and the Transformation of Los Angeles.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
THE CULTURE BROKER: FRANKLIN D. MURPHY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF LOS ANGELES

By Margaret Leslie Davis (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, 495 PP., illus., $34.95 cloth)

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IN HER PREFACE, Margaret Leslie Davis describes her biography of former UCLA Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy as the combination of two stories: "how Los Angeles refashioned itself between 1960 and 1994" and "how it came to be that one man envisioned a paradigm...

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