Barry Siegel, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing and the author of eight books, is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. He now directs the literary journalism program at UC Irvine.
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Dreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeles's pursuit and staging of the 1932 Olympic Games during the depths of the Great Depression helped fuel the city's transformation from a seedy frontier village to a world-famous metropolis. Leading that pursu... SEE MORE