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The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles -- Gary Krist, Paperback Parragon Books " this 1979-93 CBS prime-timeFrom bestselling author Gary Krist, the story of the metropolis that never should have been and the visionaries who dreamed it into reality Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California bone dry, harbor less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges seemed destined to remain scrappy farmland. Then, as if overnight, one of the world's iconic cities emerged. At the heart of Los Angeles' meteoric rise were three flawed visionaries: