

The King and Queen of Malibu
The True Story of the Battle for Paradise
Author: David K. Randall
Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer
Unabridged: 7 hr 54 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 03/02/2016
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Us History
Synopsis
The newly married couple reached Los Angeles in 1887, and within a few years Frederick, the only heir to an immense Boston fortune, became one of the wealthiest men in the state. After his sudden death in 1905, May spent the next thirty years fighting off some of the most powerful men in the country to preserve Malibu as her private kingdom. Her struggle, one of the longest over land in California history, would culminate in a landmark Supreme Court decision and lead to the creation of the Pacific Coast Highway.
The King and Queen of Malibu traces the path of one family as the country around them swept off the last vestiges of the Civil War and moved into what we would recognize as the modern age.