With Donald Trump winning the presidency and all the media attention fixated around the idea of a celebrity being our president, there’s been many words used to describe his rise to power like historic, unprecedented, groundbreaking and on and on but he’s not the first person or even group of people to use their celebrity status for political gain as we learn from our guest, Nancie Clare. That happened nearly 100 years ago in 1923 not surprisingly right here in Southern California, not Hollywood, but Beverly Hills.

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THE BATTLE FOR BEVERLY HILLS - A City’s Independence and the Birth of Celebrity Politics