Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
The American Alcalde series chronicles over 175 years of Los Angeles mayoral election history, detailing the municipality’s transformation from a once small Spanish and Mexican pueblo into the preeminent global city it is today.This volume includes stories about Damien Marchessault, the former riverboat gambler who served a record six terms as mayor, and who tried in vain to modernize the city’s water system before tragically taking his own life. William Peterson, a frontier lawman whose wife was the niece of Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, and sister to California’s first ever poet laureate.Jose Mascarel, a hardy French sea captain who once owned much of what is now Hollywood, and held the distinction of fathering two families at the same time. And Cristobal Aguilar, an often misunderstood native son of the land, who skillfully navigated his way through treacherous political waters during both the city’s Mexican and American eras.
