Los Angeles : Place of Possibilities

This book is about Los Angeles, the City of Angels, forever a Place of Possibilities. For anyone who is "seduced" by illustrated history books, as author Lynn C. Kronzek has always been, this book serves as a lure into the city's diverse and fascinating history. Abandoninig the chronological approach most coffee-table style histories take, Kronzek has chosen three distinct ways to introduce the reader to Los Angeles: illustrations, chapter opening vignettes; and narrative text. Though strongly connected, each of these can be savored individually, allowing the reader to read and browse at leisure. It is the author's hope that this book, through its compelling tet and evocative artwork, will initiate questions and explorations of Los Angeles - and that readers will be excited by the artists' interepretations of the city, just as the city has long inspried artists. Kronzek perceives in Los Angeles a city that provides an opportunity to find personal fulfillment on a grand, urban scale and to examine the past so that clear possibilities for the future will emerge. Los Angeles truly is a place of possibilities, and this book travels there.