How Long to Read This is the City

How Long Does it Take to Read This is the City?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 32 minutes to read This is the City by Ronald J. Schmidt

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Schmidt reveals how the political culture of Southern California is structured by over a century's worth of efforts to exhort citizens to emulate models of virtue and to coerce them to imitate models of passive behavior. This book traces this effort to "script" the city's social life, demonstrating how democratic pedagogy and popular media have been used to advance a utopian vision of government. In a history peopled by outsized characters like Harrison Gray Otis, first publisher of the L.A. Times, and studio moguls Louis B. Mayer and Jack Warner, Schmidt shows how Angeleno elites, from media mavens to the militaristic heroes of the LAPD, have offered themselves as models of civic virtue and have used popular culture and political rhetoric to consolidatetheir power and remake the city in their image. Schmidt argues that the political education provided by L.A. elites has been intentionally imperial and hierarchical, and that a transformation of the city's politics will require a confrontation of its models of civic participation.

How long is This is the City?

This is the City by Ronald J. Schmidt is 148 pages long, and a total of 38,184 words.

This makes it 50% the length of the average book. It also has 47% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read This is the City Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 28 minutes to read This is the City aloud.

What Reading Level is This is the City?

This is the City is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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