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Other cities have histories. Los Angeles has legends. Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the whitespot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesomeMidwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world’smost famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this publicimage lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops,ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coastgangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men–one L.A.’smost notorious gangster, the other its most famous policechief–each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city. Former street thug turned featherweight boxer Mickey Cohen leftthe ring for the rackets, first as mobster Benjamin "Bugsy"Siegel’s enforcer, then as his protégé. A fastidious dresser andunrepentant killer, the diminutive Cohen was Hollywood’s favoritegangster–and L.A.’s preeminent underworld boss. Frank Sinatra,Robert Mitchum, and Sammy Davis Jr.