The King and Queen of Malibu, David K. Randall
The King and Queen of Malibu, David K. Randall
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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

Published: 03/02/2016


Synopsis

Frederick and May Rindge, the unlikely couple whose love story propelled Malibu's transformation from an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a paradise seeded with movie stars, are at the heart of this story of American grit and determinism. He was a Harvard-trained confidant of presidents; she was a poor Midwestern farmer's daughter raised to be suspicious of the seasons. Yet the bond between them would shape history.

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.

About David K. Randall

David K. Randall is the New York Times bestselling author of Dreamland, The King and Queen of Malibu, Black Death at the Golden Gate, and The Monster's Bones. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times, among other publications. A senior reporter at Reuters, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Diamond

This book covers about seventy years of a very wealthy family who bought all of a part of California and popularised it for the elete. Very interesting read.......more

Like all places in the world, Malibu in California was once an undeveloped, uninhabited place. And like all such beautiful places, Malibu was acquired by a rich man, who was sickly and died early, was succeeded by his widow of humble beginnings but who inherited his wealth and who tried to keep Mali......more