J. Edgar Hoover’s ascent within the FBI reveals the birth of an unprecedented surveillance apparatus that would survey US citizens for decades to come.
Category Archive: 1920s
Dos Passos’s epic trilogy still indelibly captures the United States in a moment of centrifugal chaos
Carey McWilliams once called Louis Adamic Los Angeles’ greatest “prophet, sociologist and historian” of the 1920s. Adamic loved […]
Nearly one year ago last may, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. battled 12 rounds in what was […]
It’s hard to think of a sport more awash in images of blonde blue eyed Californians than surfing. […]
Over the past five years, ToM has spent a great deal of time investigating issues of race. While […]
Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown” remains perhaps the quintessential neo-noir. Set in the 1930s, the movie depicts Los Angeles and […]
In a recent New York Times editorial, Nicolas Kristof returned to an old saw, one he visited in […]