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The Great Los Angeles Swindle

Author : Jules Tygiel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520207738
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Great Los Angeles Swindle written by Jules Tygiel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a saga of the roaring twenties, with its glorification of business, its get-rich-quick mentality, and its paucity of government regulation--which bred speculation, corruption, and corporate chaos throughout the country. The Great Los Angeles Swindle exposes the schemes of C. C. Julian and his Julian Petroleum Corporation, known familiarly to thousands of Los Angeles residents as Julian Pete, thanks to Julian's folksy weekly newspaper ads. The Julian Pete swindle ranked with Teapot Dome as one of the great scandals of the era and symbolized the failure of 20s boosterism and speculation. Here is a saga of the roaring twenties, with its glorification of business, its get-rich-quick mentality, and its paucity of government regulation--which bred speculation, corruption, and corporate chaos throughout the country. The Great Los Angeles Swindle exposes the schemes of C. C. Julian and his Julian Petroleum Corporation, known familiarly to thousands of Los Angeles residents as Julian Pete, thanks to Julian's folksy weekly newspaper ads. The Julian Pete swindle ranked with Teapot Dome as one of the great scandals of the era and symbolized the failure of 20s boosterism and speculation.

Black Gold in California

Author : Robert Francis
Publisher : Industry
ISBN 13 : 9781944891138
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Black Gold in California written by Robert Francis and published by Industry. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of the petroleum industry in the state of California paired with the stories of companies that helped shape the industry.

Social Media and Oil in Southern California

Author : Jason L. Jarvis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 179363100X
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Social Media and Oil in Southern California written by Jason L. Jarvis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-22 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Media and Oil in Southern California: Greenwashing Los Angeles interrogates the politics of invisibility that permeates Southern California’s oil industry. Most residents are completely unaware that hospitals, schools, businesses, and homes are built among the thousands of active wells in Los Angeles County. Since the early 1900’s, the oil industry used social media to greenwash itself and obscure the material consequences of drilling and refining. From postcards to YouTube, social media has been a key tool in the arsenal of the fossil fuel industry. Jason L. Jarvis argues that oil–not Hollywood–is the key industry that drives the California dream. Scholars of communication, environmental studies, and rhetoric will find this book of particular interest.

Oil!

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Oil! written by Upton Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First edition of Sinclair's savage satire, loosely based on the life and career of Edward L. Doheny, and the Teapot Dome scandal of the Harding administration. Although Sinclair's famous novel The Jungle deals with Chicago's meatpacking industry, he moved west to Pasadena in 1916 and began writing novels set in California, the best of which was Oil!, the story of the education of Bunny Ross, son of wildcat oil man Joe Ross after oil is discovered outside Los Angeles. The novel was the basis for Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 film There Will Be Blood. In California Classics, Lawrence Clark Powell called Oil! "Sinclair's most sustained and best writing."

Blue Sky Metropolis

Author : Peter J. Westwick
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520289064
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Blue Sky Metropolis written by Peter J. Westwick and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like citrus, oil, movies, radio, and television, aerospace helped create Southern California and embody its values. Blue Sky Metropolis launches an entirely fresh consideration of an iconic industry that answered the immemorial hunger of the human race for flight and the future."--Kevin Starr, University of Southern California "Blue Sky Metropolis presents an intriguing survey of a unique time in Southern California history, when cheap land and benign weather lured massive aerospace enterprises to the region—eventually serving as home to nearly half of the nation’s defense and space fabricators. Before there was a Silicon Valley, high-tech dreamers were on the loose in the Southland, creating inventions as diverse as the Voyager planetary spacecraft and the Stealth bomber. These highly readable essays help us understand how it happened—how Southern California shaped aerospace, and vice versa."—Charles Elachi, Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory "Peter Westwick has assembled a rich collection of essays that tell a wonderful story about the importance of the aerospace industry to Southern California and the importance of Southern California to the aerospace industry. There's technology, sociology, economics, geography, anthropology, and much more woven through the chapters. It's an ambitious project, but it succeeds in being interesting, informative, and entertaining."—Michael Rich, President and CEO, The RAND Corporation

Oil in the Sea III

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309084385
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Oil in the Sea III written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-03-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1970s, experts have recognized that petroleum pollutants were being discharged in marine waters worldwide, from oil spills, vessel operations, and land-based sources. Public attention to oil spills has forced improvements. Still, a considerable amount of oil is discharged yearly into sensitive coastal environments. Oil in the Sea provides the best available estimate of oil pollutant discharge into marine waters, including an evaluation of the methods for assessing petroleum load and a discussion about the concerns these loads represent. Featuring close-up looks at the Exxon Valdez spill and other notable events, the book identifies important research questions and makes recommendations for better analysis ofâ€"and more effective measures againstâ€"pollutant discharge. The book discusses: Inputâ€"where the discharges come from, including the role of two-stroke engines used on recreational craft. Behavior or fateâ€"how oil is affected by processes such as evaporation as it moves through the marine environment. Effectsâ€"what we know about the effects of petroleum hydrocarbons on marine organisms and ecosystems. Providing a needed update on a problem of international importance, this book will be of interest to energy policy makers, industry officials and managers, engineers and researchers, and advocates for the marine environment.

The Good Hand

Author : Michael Patrick F. Smith
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984881523
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Good Hand written by Michael Patrick F. Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A book that should be read . . . Smith brings an alchemic talent to describing physical labor.” —The New York Times Book Review “Beautiful, funny, and harrowing.” – Sarah Smarsh, The Atlantic “Remarkable . . . this is the book that Hillbilly Elegy should have been.” —Kirkus Reviews A vivid window into the world of working class men set during the Bakken fracking boom in North Dakota Like thousands of restless men left unmoored in the wake of the 2008 economic crash, Michael Patrick Smith arrived in the fracking boomtown of Williston, North Dakota five years later homeless, unemployed, and desperate for a job. Renting a mattress on a dirty flophouse floor, he slept boot to beard with migrant men who came from all across America and as far away as Jamaica, Africa and the Philippines. They ate together, drank together, argued like crows and searched for jobs they couldn't get back home. Smith's goal was to find the hardest work he could do--to find out if he could do it. He hired on in the oil patch where he toiled fourteen hour shifts from summer's 100 degree dog days to deep into winter's bracing whiteouts, all the while wrestling with the demons of a turbulent past, his broken relationships with women, and the haunted memories of a family riven by violence. The Good Hand is a saga of fear, danger, exhaustion, suffering, loneliness, and grit that explores the struggles of America's marginalized boomtown workers—the rough-hewn, castoff, seemingly disposable men who do an indispensable job that few would exalt: oil field hands who, in the age of climate change, put the gas in our tanks and the food in our homes. Smith, who had pursued theater and played guitar in New York, observes this world with a critical eye; yet he comes to love his coworkers, forming close bonds with Huck, a goofy giant of a young man whose lead foot and quick fists get him into trouble with the law, and The Wildebeest, a foul-mouthed, dip-spitting truck driver who torments him but also trains him up, and helps Smith "make a hand." The Good Hand is ultimately a book about transformation--a classic American story of one man's attempt to burn himself clean through hard work, to reconcile himself to himself, to find community, and to become whole.

Oil!

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Oil! written by Upton Sinclair and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oil!" by Upton Sinclair. Published by DigiCat. DigiCat publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each DigiCat edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The History of the Standard Oil Company

Author : Ida Minerva Tarbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Standard Oil Company written by Ida Minerva Tarbell and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

National Response Center

Author : National Response Center (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book National Response Center written by National Response Center (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crude Politics

Author : Paul Sabin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520241983
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Crude Politics written by Paul Sabin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Sabin offers a study of the oil market in California before World War II, showing how the development of an economy & society very heavily dependent upon oil production & consumption was largely directed by policy decisions regarding property rights, regulatory law & public investment.

Statistical Appendix to Minerals Yearbook

Author : United States. Bureau of Mines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Statistical Appendix to Minerals Yearbook written by United States. Bureau of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oil Baron of the Southwest

Author : Martin R. Ansell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oil Baron of the Southwest written by Martin R. Ansell and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Martin R. Ansell provides the first comprehensive analysis of the business career of oilman Edward Laurence Doheny, one of the most successful and colorful entrepreneurs of the early twentieth century. Doheny's story begins in the mining camps of the Old West during the 1870s. Ansell shows how Doheny's rough beginning contributed to his later success and demonstrates that the fabled "Doheny luck" was actually a combination of practical knowledge, visionary ideas, and executive skill." "Because Doheny's personal papers were destroyed after his death in 1935, there has been no previous systematic attempt to reconstruct his life. As a reappraisal of Doheny's experience, this book adds significant new information about the early years of the oil industry and should interest scholars of business history, the history of the American West, and the history of California and Mexico."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Drilling Through Time

Author : William Rintoul
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780788187438
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Drilling Through Time written by William Rintoul and published by . This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The whole story of California1s oilfield and geothermal history is gathered into one volume. Begins in the 1860s, with pioneers mining and refining the asphaltum from tarry seeps. By 1876, the state had its first truly commercial oil well. Soon, many oil fields were being discovered and produced. Companies sought to capture as much oil as possible, as fast as they could. Events grew so chaotic that the petroleum industry itself sought regulation. Thus, on Aug. 9, 1915, the Calif. Dept. of Petroleum and Gas (now, the Div. of Oil and Gas) was formed. This book tells how the petroleum and geothermal industries and the Div. of Oil and Gas have developed together. Dozens of photos.

Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915

Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199923256
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986-12-04 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country.

Summary of Operations, California Oil Fields

Author : California. Division of Oil and Gas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Summary of Operations, California Oil Fields written by California. Division of Oil and Gas and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spudding in

Author : William Rintoul
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spudding in written by William Rintoul and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of petroleum in California deserves to be better known, for oil has been as surely the significant California mineral in the 20th century as the more glamorous gold was in its predecessor. In this coal-short state, oil has long fueled our industry, public utilities and transport. It has contributed to our agriculture by powering distillate-driven pumps for irrigation and in numerous other ways. Above all, through its most valuable refined product, gasoline, it has helped make the automobile our massively preferred form of personal transportation, affecting our patterns of population growth and, in recent years, making us acutely conscious of the hazards of air pollution. Spudding In can whet popular interest in oil history. Its handsome format, superb illustrations and easy reading make it fit for a coffee table, but it is by no means lacking in substance. The author, a longtime, respected oil journalist, has drawn heavily on taped interviews with thirty-five prominent oil figures of early in this century systematically gathered since 1963 by the Petroleum Production Pioneers of California and has supplemented this rich source with a variety of printed materials and his own wide knowledge.