The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties by Jules Tygiel

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

Jules Tygiel

398 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history dark mysterious medium-paced
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In Los Angeles in the 1920s, C.C. Julian and the Julian Petroleum Corporation were household words, and the Julian Pete swindle ranked with Teapot Dome as one of the great scandals of the era. It symbolized not merely what FDR would call "a decade...

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