Dynamite and Dreams: A Novel Based on the Life of Job Harriman

Novel based on the life of Job Harriman, socialist candidate for mayor in Los Angeles in 1911, and co-founder of the Llano Colony in northern L.A. County. Harriman was a well-known free speech lawyer and, in 1911, becamse the Socialist Party's candidate for mayor of Los Angeles. This is a fictionalized account of his life in the utopian Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony which Harriman helped to establish north of Los Angeles in 1914.