Review: Dreamers and Schemers: How an Improbable Bid for the 1932 Olympics Transformed Los Angeles from Dusty Outpost to Global Metropolis, by Barry Siegel

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Book Review| August 01 2021 Review: Dreamers and Schemers: How an Improbable Bid for the 1932 Olympics Transformed Los Angeles from Dusty Outpost to Global Metropolis, by Barry Siegel Barry Siegel. Dreamers and Schemers: How an Improbable Bid for the 1932 Olympics Transformed Los Angeles from Dusty Outpost to Global Metropolis. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 272 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover $29.95. Shaun S. Nichols Shaun S. Nichols Shaun S. Nichols is an assistant professor of history at Boise State University. His in-progress book manuscript is titled “Crisis Capital: Industrial Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1813–Present.” Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2021) 98 (3): 134–136. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2021.98.3.134 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Shaun S. Nichols; Review: Dreamers and Schemers: How an Improbable Bid for the 1932 Olympics Transformed Los Angeles from Dusty Outpost to Global Metropolis, by Barry Siegel. California History 1 August 2021; 98 (3): 134–136. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2021.98.3.134 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California2021 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.