Biographical profile of Harry Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times and architect of the growth of the City of Los Angeles. On his death in October, 1944, Newsweek Magazine reported: "He has been called the most hated man in California. Yet, paradoxically, more than any other man, Harry Chandler was given the credit for building the great city of Los Angeles from a pueblo of 12,000 inhabitants to a metropolis of close to 2 million." The man who shunned publicity and worked behind the scenes, a master choreographer of industrial growth who brought Hollywood and Aerospace to the City of the Angeles, amassed one of America's greatest fortunes. He arranged for the theft of water from the Owens Valley for Los Angeles, incited an insurrection in Mexico, and became the largest landholder in Los Angeles. Award-winning author and syndicated columnist Daniel Alef who has written and published more than 300 biographical profiles of America's greatest titans, tells this uniquely fascinating tale of Chandler's self-made empire--Los Angeles. [8,831-word Titans of Fortune article]
Biographical profile of Harry Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times and architect of the growth of the City of Los Angeles. On his death in October, 1944, Newsweek Magazine reported: "He has been called the most hated man in California. Yet, paradoxically, more than any other man, Harry Chandler was given the credit for building the great city of Los Angeles from a pueblo of 12,000 inhabitants to a metropolis of close to 2 million." The man who shunned publicity and worked behind the scenes, a master choreographer of industrial growth who brought Hollywood and Aerospace to the City of the Angeles, amassed one of America's greatest fortunes. He arranged for the theft of water from the Owens Valley for Los Angeles, incited an insurrection in Mexico, and became the largest landholder in Los Angeles. Award-winning author and syndicated columnist Daniel Alef who has written and published more than 300 biographical profiles of America's greatest titans, tells this uniquely fascinating tale of Chandler's self-made empire--Los Angeles. [8,831-word Titans of Fortune article]
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