The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise by Randall, David K.
The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise by Randall, David K.

The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise

Frederick and May Rindge, the unlikely couple whose love story propelled Malibu's transformation from an untamed ranch...
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The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise by Randall, David K.

The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise

$61.03
The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise by Randall, David K.

The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise

$61.03
Author: David K. Randall
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Frederick and May Rindge, the unlikely couple whose love story propelled Malibu's transformation from an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a paradise seeded with movie stars, are at the heart of this story of American grit and determinism. He was a Harvard-trained confidant of presidents; she was a poor Midwestern farmer's daughter raised to be suspicious of the seasons. Yet the bond between them would shape history.

The newly married couple reached Los Angeles in 1887 when it was still a frontier, and within a few years Frederick, the only heir to an immense Boston fortune, became one of the wealthiest men in the state. After his sudden death in 1905, May spent the next thirty years fighting off some of the most powerful men in the country--as well as fissures within her own family--to preserve Malibu as her private kingdom. Her struggle, one of the longest over land in California history, would culminate in a landmark Supreme Court decision and lead to the creation of the Pacific Coast Highway.

The King and Queen of Malibu traces the path of one family as the country around them swept off the last vestiges of the Civil War and moved into what we would recognize as the modern age. The story of Malibu ranges from the halls of Harvard to the Old West in New Mexico to the beginnings of San Francisco's counter culture amid the Gilded Age, and culminates in the glamour of early Hollywood--all during the brief sliver of history in which the advent of railroads and the automobile traversed a beckoning American frontier and anything seemed possible.



Author: David K. Randall
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/02/2016
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780393240993


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2015
Publishers Weekly 01/18/2016
Library Journal 02/01/2016 pg. 82
Booklist 03/01/2016 pg. 38

About the Author
Randall, David K.: - David K. Randall is a senior reporter at Reuter's. He is the New York Times best-selling author of Dreamland, The King and Queen of Malibu, and Black Death at the Golden Gate. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

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