After living in the Chicago area for many years, I craved sunshine and palm trees. Los Angeles seemed like the perfect place for a fresh start, but the culture shock was too much. I returned to ...

Arrayed against the new power of the west were such diverse Democrats as Pennsylvania’s Governor David Leo Lawrence, Illinois’ Jake Arvey, New York’s Carmine De Sapio and Georgia’s Committeewoman Mrs.

Ella Berman gets why some people are obsessed with the 1960s and ‘70s — because she is, too. “The aesthetics are still relevant today,” Berman, the author of the novel “L.A. Women,” says. “I walked ...