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    Oct 01, 2019 2 minutes

    DREAMERS AND SCHEMERS

    By Barry Siegel

    University of California Press, 272 pages, $29.95

    offers a dual history of the 1932 Summer Olympics and the rise of Los Angeles in the 1920s, and it is at its best when those narratives coincide. Meticulously researched, the book chronicles real estate

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