The Big CityConstant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 567
Jul 16, 2020 • 52m
Los Angeles
Guest: Gary Krist, author, "The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles"
LA was built against all odds—no water and no people in desiccated country. It took innovation, creativity, and a little deception to persuade people to come and make it thrive.
New York City
Guest: Donald L. Miller, John Henry MacCracken Emeritus Professor of History, Lafayette College, and author, "Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America"
It's the place you went to see the future: the Big Apple. NYC's booming transformation in the early 20th century changed world culture.