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Everything Now: Lessons from the CityState of Los Angeles,New
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A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER. NAMED A BEST CALIFORNIA BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK TIMESA provocative, exhilaratingly new understanding of the United States most confounding metropolisnot just a great city, but a fullblown modern citystateAmerica is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. (It has its own dreams.) Not just the vanishing point of Americas western drive. (It has its own compass.) Functionally, aesthetically, mythologically, even technologically, an independent territory, defined less by distinct borders than by an aura of autonomy and a sense of unfurling destinythis is the citystate of Los Angeles.Deeply reported and researched, provocatively argued, and eloquently written, Rosecrans Baldwin's Everything Now approaches the metropolis from unexpected angles, nimbly interleaving his own voice with a chorus of others, from canonical L.A. literature to everyday citizens. Here, Octavia E. Butler and Joan Didion are in conversation with activists and astronauts, vampires and veterans. Baldwin records the stories of countless Angelenos, discovering people both upended and reborn: by disasters natural and economic, following gospels of wealth or selfhelp or personal destiny. The result is a story of a kaleidoscopic, vibrant nation unto itselfvastly more than its many, many parts.Baldwins concept of the citystate allows us, finally, to grasp a placeLos Angeleswhose idiosyncrasies both magnify those of America, and are so fully its own. Here, space and time dont quite work the same as they do elsewhere, and contradictions are as stark as southern Californias natural environment. Perhaps no better place exists to watch the United Statess past, and its possible futures, play themselves out.Welcome to Los Angeles, the Great American CityState.
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