Inventing LA: The Chandlers And Their Times

Airs Monday, October 5 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

The "Los Angeles Times" was the city’s biggest booster, instrumental to the largest internal migration in U.S. history. Pictured: The "Times" newsroom, circa 1932.

Credit: The Huntington Library

Above: The "Los Angeles Times" was the city’s biggest booster, instrumental to the largest internal migration in U.S. history. Pictured: The "Times" newsroom, circa 1932.

Friday, October 2, 2009

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This groundbreaking documentary traces the explosive emergence of multi-ethnic, modern Los Angeles during the single-family reign of four publishers of the "Los Angeles Times." Each used the newspaper to pursue distinct agendas and impossible dreams, transforming the composition and character of Southern California itself; in the process, seducing a nation and the world with a new kind of American Dream. Watch a preview of the film.

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