Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles. (book reviews)

Richard DeLeon and Raphael Sonenshein offer important and needed studies of California's politically vanguard big cities. In the early 1970s, powerful and long-lived progressive coalitions emerged in San Francisco and Los Angeles. In the Bay Area, a burgeoning slow-growth movement helped elect two mayors--George Moscone and Art Agnos--and secured voter approval for the most restrictive growth-control legislation of any big city in the nation. In Los Angeles, a biracial coalition of African Americans and white liberals headed by Mayor Tom Bradley ruled for twenty years.

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