In the 1920's Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world! It was caught up in oil fever and get rich quick schemes. It already had its share of celebrity scandals and was ripe with organized crime. In his new book, A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age, LA's premier chronicler Richard Rayner, takes us inside theses transformative years that forever shaped the destiny of the one of the world great and most important cities.
My conversation with Richard Rayner:
