"[Hitler in Los Angeles] is part thriller and all chiller, about how close the California Reich came to succeeding" (Los Angeles Times).
Steven J. Ross is professor of history at the University of Southern California and director of the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life. He is the author of Hollywood Left and Right, recipient of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Film Scholars Award and nominated for a Pulitzer; Working-Class Hollywood, nominated for a Pulitzer and the National Book Award; Movies and American Society; and Workers on the Edge. He lives in Southern California.
A terrifying, revelatory and inspiring masterpiece that probes the
flourishing fascism of 1930s America, and the power of popular
resistance to combat an alliance of Nazism, the Ku Klux Klan and
other homegrown paramilitary groups. -- Jury for Pulitzer Prize in
History
A remarkable tale, one that pits a secretive, chess-playing Jewish
spymaster--attorney Leon Lewis--and a group of courageous
German-American war veterans that he recruited as his spies against
a cast of villains straight out of a classic Warner Bros. film . .
. Mr. Ross has a novelist's eye for characters and detail. * Wall
Street Journal *
Hitler in Los Angeles . . . is part thriller and all
chiller, about how close the California Reich came to succeeding. *
Los Angeles Times *
Fascinating. * Smithsonian Magazine *
A history book that doubles as espionage thriller with a cast of
characters that includes movie stars, studio moguls, entertainment
lawyers, diplomats and pols, all of them quite real . . .
Remarkable . . . Now that anti-Semitic chants recently have been
heard in the streets of Charlottesville, Va., Hitler in Los
Angeles must be seen as much more than an accomplished work of
historical scholarship. * Jewish Journal *
The director of the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish
Role in American Life and an award-winning film historian, Ross
tells a shocking story of Nazi efforts to infiltrate America . . .
Ross puts his experience in film history to good use, and he
creates lively portraits of the men and women whom Lewis recruited
as spies and who succeeded in putting some dangerous Nazis behind
bars. A vivid history of homegrown resistance. * Kirkus Reviews
*
Readers interested in a detailed look at this spy operation can
have confidence in this well-sourced account. * Library Journal
*
Thrilling . . . dramatic. * The Daily Express *
A chilling, captivating story of espionage and resistance . . .
Author Steven J. Ross employs impeccable research and a driving
no-holds-barred writing style . . . [This] nonfiction revelation .
. . reads like an exciting spy novel. Ross reveals this true story
of resistance by American Jews and Gentiles with an exciting,
evocative writing style. * The New York Journal of Books *
Remarkable and meticulously researched. * Times Higher Education
*
Reveal[s] the hitherto untold story of Jewish resistance to Nazi
infiltration, not in Berlin or Warsaw but in Los Angeles during the
1930s, a time when Nazism, a distant rumble on the horizon for most
Americans, was for tens of thousands of others a siren call to
action . . . Ross has a blockbuster revelation. * The Chronicle of
Higher Education *
A riveting and terrifying chapter of Nazi American history... Ross
has a flair for thriller-writing and this history is a captivating
read.. Enthralling... Important and compelling... Hitler in Los
Angeles is crammed with twists and turns involving
double-agents, movie stars, and big-time studio moguls. Netflix
needs to turn Hitler in Los Angeles into a television
series. * PopMatters *
Outstanding and compelling... parts of Hitler in Los Angeles
read almost like a spy novel, except that these events really-- and
frighteningly-- happened. * TruthDig *
Nazis, spies, assassination plots, a planned putsch to topple
Franklin Roosevelt--these are the ingredients for a World War II
movie. But in Steve Ross's compelling history, they make for a
true-life thriller about an episode that has been almost completely
ignored: the attempt by the Nazis to take over America. -- Neal
Gabler, author of WALT DISNEY
Steven J. Ross has the verve of a spellbinding novelist and the
skill of a master historian. This story has every bit the drama of
Roth's The Plot against America or Dick's The Man in the
High Castle, except it actually happened! The all-important
take-away of Hitler in Los Angeles? Good people can and must
prevail against bad. -- David N. Myers, President/CEO, The Center
for Jewish History
This is a truly brilliant history by a superbly talented historian.
More importantly, it's a damn fine read, a true life thriller
that's a powerful reminder of how hate, if left to fester, can
destroy us all. -- Alex Kershaw, author of AVENUE OF SPIES
Steven J. Ross, one of our foremost authorities on the entwined
histories of American Jewry, domestic politics and Hollywood,
presents a chilling tale of the Nazi plot to destroy America; the
small spy network who helped defeat it; and the official
indifference to the threat posed by German agents and home-grown
extremists bent on sabotage and political murder. -- Glenn Frankel,
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of HIGH NOON
This little-known chapter of 1930s history--captured by Steven J.
Ross with impeccable research and an intriguing narrative--needs to
be told; it will challenge assumptions about the power of citizens
to shape world events from their own backyard. -- Ted Johnson,
senior editor, VARIETY
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