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This is the story of Zev Yaroslavsky, a young social activist, who became one of Los Angeles' most powerful and consequential elected officials, taking on established power brokers and sparking major reforms in policing, transit, land use and fiscal policies. "I may be a part of the establishment," he said when first sworn into office, "but the establishment is not part of me.".

City government, Los Angeles, local, Homelessness, Martin Luther King Hospital, Jewish Los Angeles, Los Angeles Arts and Culture, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), 1984 Olympics, Los Angeles real estate development, transit and transportation, health care, Los Angeles City, Los Angeles County, Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles politics, Tom Bradley, Richard Riordan, Daryl Gates, 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest, Rodney King, political corruption.