The Golden Fortress: California's Border War on Dust Bowl Refugees

In February 1936, Los Angeles police officers drove hundreds of miles to California's state borders with one...
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Author: Bill Lascher
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The Golden Fortress: California's Border War on Dust Bowl Refugees by Lascher, Bill

The Golden Fortress: California's Border War on Dust Bowl Refugees

¥6,767

The Golden Fortress: California's Border War on Dust Bowl Refugees

¥6,767
Author: Bill Lascher
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

In February 1936, Los Angeles police officers drove hundreds of miles to California's state borders with one mission: turn back anyone deemed too poor to enter.

Myths of the Golden State's abundance enticed thousands of Americans uprooted by the Depression, but those who created those myths saw only invading criminal "hordes" that they believed just one man could stop: James "Two-Gun" Davis, Los Angeles's authoritarian police chief.

The Golden Fortress tells the story of Davis's audacious deployment of hand-picked armed police slamming California's door on America's Dust Bowl refugees and Depression-displaced migrants. It depicts the sometimes deadly consequences of law enforcement politicized and weaponized against the poor, even in remote places like Modoc County, where a sheriff's opposition to the blockade inflamed an already smoldering feud between an itinerant newsman and a publisher obsessed with her California heritage.

Davis, blessed by his city's ruling business class and fueled by his own wild claims of communist conspiracies undermining America, deployed his "Foreign Legion" to California's state lines, threatening democracy even as the nation's cities and rural communities juggled the burdens of economic recovery, migrant aid, and public safety.

The Golden Fortress underscores the decades-long fight over who can access the American Dream.



Author: Bill Lascher
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 08/09/2022
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781641606042


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/02/2022

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