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Frances Dinkelspiel

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St. Martin's Press
(2010-01-05)
400 pages
$16.99
ISBN: 978-0312355272

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Towers of Gold

How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California

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Media

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From the ALOUD series at the Los Angeles Public Library
July 16, 2009. Click Here


Forum with Michael Krasny
December 23, 2008. Listen


“Air Talk” with Larry Mantle, KPCC FM
November 24, 2008. Click here


UpFront: Jewish History and Bollywood Money
New American Media, July 4, 2008.

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Interview for History of Jewish Los Angeles project
Los Angeles, November 2005. Click here to watch video


Isaias Hellman and the 1893 Financial Panic, speech at Magnes Museum Benefit
San Francisco, May 15, 2008. Click here to watch video


Channel 7 History Comes Back to Life at Pine Lodge
ABC 7 News, August 8, 2008. Click here to watch video


Print and Web Articles about Towers of Gold

Immigrant’s Magic Touch Brought Gold to Southland
Jewish Journal, April 15, 2009 Click here


Bankers Must Put Stability Before Profit
Sacramento Bee, April 4, 2009 Click here


When LA was a Backwater
Internet Review of Books, April 2009 Click here


Hellman’s Reappraise
Stanford Magazine, March/April 2009 Click here


Bio Lays Out Life that Paralleled State History
North County Times, March 29, 2009


Towers of Gold: The Man who created L.A.’s economy
Book Review in the Washington Times
March 1, 2009. Click here


California Dreamer
The Rags to Riches Tale of the Man Who Made Los Angeles
Nextbook
December 22, 2008.


Towers of Gold: A Book Review by the San Francisco Chronicle
November 30, 2008. Click here


Frances Dinkelspiel, author of Towers of Gold
San Francisco Chronicle
November 30, 2008. Click here


Book Review by Los Angeles Times
November 29, 2008. Click here


Golden State Warrior
A humble immigrant became one of California’s most history-making financiers
East Bay Express
November 12, 2008. Click here


A Review of Towers of Gold
Jew Wishes blog Click here


Snap Judgments
“Visionary financier Isaias Hellman was the Warren Buffett and Alan Greenspan of early California rolled into one . . . .Many underappreciated developments in California’s astonishing adolescence are recovered here in elegantly restrained prose.” San Francisco Magazine, November 2008. Click here (Download PDF)


Berkeley Writer’s Ancestor Helped Put California on the Map
J, the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California
October 16, 2008. Click here


“Heller Ehrman’s demise closes chapter of San Francisco history”
San Francisco Chronicle, October 2, 2008. Click here


How Lehman Brothers Rescued L.A.
Los Angeles Times, September 18, 2008. Click here


Faces
J, the Jewish News Weekly, June 20, 2008. Click here


His Holiness for Veep?
Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle columnist, May 23, 2008. Click here


Book Notes
LA Observed, June 15, 2005. Click here


More Rainfall Debunkage
LA Observed, March 23, 2005. Click here

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