An unauthorized biography of Dianne Feinstein portrays a childhood of pain and privilege, her rise to power as mayor of San Francisco, the tragic Milk and Moscone slayings, and her successful campaign for the Senate in 1992

Dianne Feinstein: Never Let Them See You Cry

Biographies & Memoirs

Roberts, Jerry

Leaders & Notable People

Harpercollins

Robert Mitchum's bad boy reputation that colors his public profile has been both earned and undeserved. Jerry Roberts discusses the actor's career, his cult status, his under-appreciated talent, his forgotten films, and his nonchalance.This book catalogues previously published information on Mitchum, taking a full measure of the actor and describing the events that occasionally brought him more notoriety than his movies. The book's biographical essay and annotated filmography scrutinize his performing style.
Many yarns about Mitchum have been repeated and modified into legend. But much of the Mitchum myth has been just that: myth. The final word here on various rumors and stories comes from the confirmations, clarifications and corrections made by Robert Mitchum during an interview with the author and in correspondence with several members of the Mitchum family. As with the other Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts, this biographical essay is followed by a chronology, annotated filmography, television, stage, recording and writing credits, list of awards, annotated bibliography listing 1,300 entries and a comprehensive index.

Robert Mitchum: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts)

Greenwood

A semi-rural alternative to bustling Los Angeles early in the 20th century, Hawthorne grew through the World War I years, welcoming oil wells and eventually airplane factories. The city became home to the chart-topping Beach Boys, athlete Jim Thorpe, and the greatest glamour blondes of their times, Marilyn Monroe and Mattel’s Barbie. Bisected by Hawthorne Boulevard, the main north-south thoroughfare through the South Bay region, Hawthorne’s notable events ran the gamut, from the annual Kiwanis Parade―second in California prestige only to Pasadena’s Tournament of Roses Parade―to a furious 1971 police gun-battle with the desperate Charles Manson gang. Today, the city is a support community to Los Angeles International Airport and the aerospace industry.

Hawthorne (CA) (Images of America)

Arts & Photography

Dixon, Walt

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

Hermosa Beach has been one of Los Angeles County’s most eclectic summertime destinations for vacationing families, surfers, sunbathers, fishermen, volleyball players, and other beachgoers. They ranged from students in search of one crazy summer to their spiritual forefathers and mothers who came, saw, and stayed year-round. The city grew through the 20th century from a train stop into a vital mix of residential housing with businesses strung along Pacific Coast Highway. The city has been homey enough to accommodate statesman William Jennings Bryant and television’s iconic Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. Its nationally recognized nightclubs and other venues included the Biltmore Hotel; the Comedy &amp; Magic Club; and the legendary Lighthouse, home of West Coast jazz.

Hermosa Beach (CA) (Images of America)

Miller, Chris

Unlike most Los Angeles County beach communities, the City of Hermosa Beach owns its own beach. But perhaps more than most coastal Southern California destination cities, Hermosa Beach represents shared experience, detailed on thousands of postcards over the decades. This greater square mile of sand, surf, and sun has conjured cherished memories for fishermen, surfers, and volleyball players as well as jazz fans, diners and tavern celebrants, and simply lovers of the beach who found lifelong or short-term happiness in Hermosa. These postcards recall many bygone landmarks and changing lifestyles and celebrate the Hermosa Beach century (1907-2007).

Hermosa Beach (Postcard History Series)

Miller, Chris Ann

Los Angeles County's South Bay is referenced by the lower arc of Santa Monica Bay and includes the communities between El Segundo on the north and Palos Verdes Peninsula on the south, eastward to the Long Beach border. Roughly defined over the years as the coverage area of the Daily Breeze newspaper, as well as the confines of the South Bay Council of Governments, the South Bay always has been much more than the beautiful coastlines of Manhattan, Hermosa, and Redondo Beaches, as seen in these vintage postcards. It was, as it is today, also the residential and workaday worlds of Torrance, Hawthorne, Lawndale, Inglewood, Gardena, Lomita, Carson, and the Los Angeles Harbor communities.

The South Bay (Postcard History Series)

Osborne, James

Ron, Marilyn

The breaking of the Enigma machine is one of the most heroic stories of World War II, and highlights the crucial work of the Bletchley Park codebreakers which shortened the war by several years. But there was another code machine used by Hitler himself to convey messages to his top commanders in the field. More complex and secure than Enigma, it could never be broken. For 60 years no one knew about Lorenz or "Tunny," or the courageous group of men who finally broke the code. Here for the first time, codebreaker Jerry Roberts tells how these forgotten heroes of Bletchley broke Hitler’s top secret code, and how he finally got the codebreakers the recognition they deserve.

Lorenz: Breaking Hitler’s Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park

History

Europe

The History Press

The breaking of the Enigma machine is one of the most heroic stories of World War II and highlights the crucial work of the codebreakers of Bletchley Park, which prevented Britain’s certain defeat in 1941. But there was another German cipher machine more complex and secure than Enigma, used by Hitler himself to convey messages to his top generals in the field. For 60 years, no one knew about Lorenz or "Tunny," or the determined group of men who finally broke the code and thus changed the course of the war. Many of them went to their deaths without anyone knowing of their achievements. Here, for the first time, senior codebreaker Captain Jerry Roberts tells the complete story of this extraordinary feat of intellect and of his struggle to get his wartime colleagues the recognition they deserve. The work carried out at Bletchley Park during the war to partially automate the process of breaking Lorenz, which had previously been done entirely by hand, is recognized as having kick-started the modern computer age.

Lorenz: Breaking Hitler’s Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park (Espionage)

From Critics Choice evenings sponsored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, directors, screenwriters and cast are interviewed here following screenings of some of their most important films. Those interviewed include Oliver Stone, Joe Dante, Richard Rush, Russ Meyer, Edy Williams, Robert Culp, William Friedkin, Roy Scheider and Slobodan Sijan.

Movie Talk from the Front Lines: Filmmakers Discuss Their Works With the Los Angeles Film Critics Association

McFarland Publishing

Big television contracts in the 1960s created the Super Bowl, as well as the 1970 merger of the National Football League with the pass-oriented American Football League. Since then, professional football has been America's most popular televised team sport, developing into a wide-open passing game by the 21st century. 
Handling the completion side of the aerial game, receivers are not often as celebrated as quarterbacks or coaches, even in the era of San Francisco 49er Jerry Rice's supremacy. This book provides a history of pro pass receiving and its influence on the game prior to the televised era. 
The author studies pro football's formative and mid-20th century years, highlighting the players who pulled pigskins from flight, like the legendary Don Hutson, Gibby Welch, Johnny Blood, Ray Flaherty, Crazy Legs Hirsch, Mac Speedie, Choo Choo Roberts and many others.

Pass Receiving in Early Pro Football: A History to the 1960s

Americas

McFarland

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