Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America - Tapa dura

A terrifying, revelatory and inspiring masterpiece that probes the flourishing fascism of 1930s America, and the power of popular resistance to combat an alliance of Nazism, the Ku Klux Klan and other homegrown paramilitary groups. (Jury for Pulitzer Prize in History)

A remarkable tale, one that pits a secretive, chess-playing Jewish spymaster--attorney Leon Lewis--and a group of courageous German-American war veterans that he recruited as his spies against a cast of villains straight out of a classic Warner Bros. film . . . Mr. Ross has a novelist's eye for characters and detail. (Wall Street Journal)

Hitler in Los Angeles . . . is part thriller and all chiller, about how close the California Reich came to succeeding. (Los Angeles Times)

Fascinating. (Smithsonian Magazine)

A history book that doubles as espionage thriller with a cast of characters that includes movie stars, studio moguls, entertainment lawyers, diplomats and pols, all of them quite real . . . Remarkable . . . Now that anti-Semitic chants recently have been heard in the streets of Charlottesville, Va., Hitler in Los Angeles must be seen as much more than an accomplished work of historical scholarship. (Jewish Journal)

The director of the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life and an award-winning film historian, Ross tells a shocking story of Nazi efforts to infiltrate America . . . Ross puts his experience in film history to good use, and he creates lively portraits of the men and women whom Lewis recruited as spies and who succeeded in putting some dangerous Nazis behind bars. A vivid history of homegrown resistance. (Kirkus Reviews)

Readers interested in a detailed look at this spy operation can have confidence in this well-sourced account. (Library Journal)

Thrilling . . . dramatic. (The Daily Express)

A chilling, captivating story of espionage and resistance . . . Author Steven J. Ross employs impeccable research and a driving no-holds-barred writing style . . . [This] nonfiction revelation . . . reads like an exciting spy novel. Ross reveals this true story of resistance by American Jews and Gentiles with an exciting, evocative writing style. (The New York Journal of Books)

Remarkable and meticulously researched. (Times Higher Education)