| For the People: Inside the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office 1850-2000 Contributor(s): Parrish, Michael (Author), Starr, Kevin (Foreword by), Garcetti, Gil (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1883318157 ISBN-13: 9781883318154 Publisher: Angel City Press OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2001 Annotation: 150 years of Los Angeles crime -- direct from the files of the Los AngelesDistrict Attorney. With captivating visual and narrative portraits of headline-grabbingcriminal cases, For the People charts the first 150 years of the Los Angeles County District Attorneys Office, from its beginnings as a one-man operation to its modern-day emergence as the worlds largest local prosecutorial agency. This authorized history offers unique insightinto the lawyers on both sides of some of the most significant and well-known courtroom dramas ever, and proves that truth is often dramatically stranger than fiction. Author Michael Parrish chronicles a rich cross-section of true crime storiesshowing how infamous killers such as Charles Manson and Night Stalker Richard Ramirez were brought to justice; how Julian Pete swindled thousands of ordinary investors in the 1920s oil boom; how Charles Keating defrauded thousands of Americans; how stripper Lili St. Cyr was prosecuted, unsuccessfully, for taking a bubble bath before a live audience at Ciros; and how JosephP. Kennedy helped frame one of the biggest moguls of Hollywood's Golden Age and got away with it. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Law | Legal History - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 364.979 |
| LCCN: 00010747 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 10" W x 12.1" (3.10 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - California |
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| Publisher Description: With visual and narrative portraits of headline-grabbing criminal cases, this volume charts the first 150 years of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, from its beginnings as a one-man operation to its modern-day emergence as the world's largest local prosecutorial agency. Parrish (an |