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Towers of Gold (Nonfiction)

by | Jan 15, 2009 | Western Books

Frances Dinkelspiel, St. Martin's Press, $29.95, Hardcover.
It is a stretch to call Isaias Hellman the creator of modern California, as the author (a descendant) does, but the Los Angeles banker did have much to do with the late 19th- to early 20th-century economic surge in the city. We more often salute the Golden State’s politicians than its more worthy entrepreneurs, so this biography of financier Hellman is welcome. T


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