Louis Adamic is the forgotten Boswell of early Los Angeles, perhaps the first writer to tune himself into the then-youthful city and report back. Born in Slovenia in either 1898 or 1899 (records ...

The Reading L.A. books we’ll be looking at today -- while sometimes a bit loose with the facts and clearly dated in their attitudes toward race and ... sickly color.’ Adamic (1899-1951 ...

Louis Adamic's short history of the Knights of Labor union and some of its key disputes from its founding in 1869 until its successful railway… Dynamite: the story of class violence in America - Louis ...