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Author : Gary S. Breschini
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Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book 10,000 Years on the Salinas Plain written by Gary S. Breschini and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Souder
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393292274
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck written by William Souder and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2020 in Nonfiction A resonant biography of America’s most celebrated novelist of the Great Depression. The first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate to appear in a quarter century, Mad at the World illuminates what has made the work of John Steinbeck an enduring part of the literary canon: his capacity for empathy. Pulitzer Prize finalist William Souder explores Steinbeck’s long apprenticeship as a writer struggling through the depths of the Great Depression, and his rise to greatness with masterpieces such as The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath. Angered by the plight of the Dust Bowl migrants who were starving even as they toiled to harvest California’s limitless bounty, fascinated by the guileless decency of the downtrodden denizens of Cannery Row, and appalled by the country’s refusal to recognize the humanity common to all of its citizens, Steinbeck took a stand against social injustice—paradoxically given his inherent misanthropy—setting him apart from the writers of the so-called "lost generation." A man by turns quick-tempered, compassionate, and ultimately brilliant, Steinbeck could be a difficult person to like. Obsessed with privacy, he was mistrustful of people. Next to writing, his favorite things were drinking and womanizing and getting married, which he did three times. And while he claimed indifference about success, his mid-career books and movie deals made him a lot of money—which passed through his hands as quickly as it came in. And yet Steinbeck also took aim at the corrosiveness of power, the perils of income inequality, and the urgency of ecological collapse, all of which drive public debate to this day. Steinbeck remains our great social realist novelist, the writer who gave the dispossessed and the disenfranchised a voice in American life and letters. Eloquent, nuanced, and deeply researched, Mad at the World captures the full measure of the man and his work.
Author : Gary S. Breschini
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738529936
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Early Salinas written by Gary S. Breschini and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Salinas is named for the broad saltwater slough that once seeped in from Monterey Bay, saturating this plain between the Santa Lucia and Gavilian Mountains. Originally used as range land for cattle, a town developed from a stage stop after the Gold Rush, and the drained land produced grain and other crops. After World War I, immensely profitable large-scale lettuce, broccoli, and artichoke production, known as "green gold," made Salinas one of the wealthiest cities in the United States. Isolated from its neighbors by mountains on both sides, early Salinas seemed a world unto itself, and its residents, both humble and wealthy, and the seemingly infinite green rows that surrounded it, provided similarly endless inspiration to novelist John Steinbeck, who recorded life here in the first half of the 20th century and imbued it with meaning.
Author : Tricia Martineau Wagner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762767421
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Black Cowboys of the Old West written by Tricia Martineau Wagner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word cowboy conjures up vivid images of rugged men on saddled horses—men lassoing cattle, riding bulls, or brandishing guns in a shoot-out. White men, as Hollywood remembers them. What is woefully missing from these scenes is their counterparts: the black cowboys who made up one-fourth of the wranglers and rodeo riders. This book tells their story. When the Civil War ended, black men left the Old South in large numbers to seek a living in the Old West—industrious men resolved to carve out a life for themselves on the wild, roaming plains. Some had experience working cattle from their time as slaves; others simply sought a freedom they had never known before. The lucky travelled on horseback; the rest, by foot. Over dirt roads they went from Alabama and South Carolina to present-day Texas and California up north through Kansas to Montana. The Old West was a land of opportunity for these adventurous wranglers and future rodeo champions. A long overdue testament to the courage and skill of black cowboys, Black Cowboys of the Old West finally gives these courageous men their rightful place in history. Praise for an earlier book by the same author: “Whether you are a history enthusiast or a lover of adventure stories, African American Women of the Old Westpresents the reader with fascinating accounts of ten extraordinary, generally unrecognized, African Americans. Tricia Martineau Wagner takes these remarkable women from the footnotes of history and brings them to life.” —Ed Diaz, President of the Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation
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Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book A Historical Context and Archaeological Research Design for Townsite Properties in California written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 464 pages
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Download or read book California Historian written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595342044
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The WPA Guide to California written by Federal Writers' Project and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The guide to California stands out among the rest of the WPA guides for the quality of its writing, photographs, and pen-and-ink drawings. The Golden State contains much diversity of people, places, and things, and the WPA Guide expertly reflects and records the eclectic quality of this quintessentially American state. Published in 1939, the guide’s essays on history cover everything from the gold rush to the movie industry at the nascence of Hollywood’s golden age, and its back-road tours through California's coastal fishing villages and mountain mining towns still provide a splendid alternative to freeways.
Author : Rose Arny
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Total Pages : 954 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary S. Breschini
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 9780738546841
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (468 download)
Download or read book Spreckels written by Gary S. Breschini and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2006 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The community of Spreckels in the Salinas Valley was the manifestation of the dreams of immigrant Claus Spreckels, later known as the "Sugar King." Architect W. H. Weeks designed Spreckels Sugar Company's town near its massive sugar beet factory, the largest in the world. Neat rows of single-story homes sprang up on the valley floor, opening to workers in 1899. Spreckels also built a narrow-gauge railroad to cart his cargo to the docks at Moss Landing. Sugar beet production changed the focus of valley agriculture from dry to irrigated crops, resulting in the vast modern agricultural-industrial economy in today's "Salad Bowl of the World." Although Spreckels died in 1908, his company continued to own and operate the factory and much of the town until 1982, and almost 500 residents still call it home.
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Total Pages : 1084 pages
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Download or read book Motorland written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1150 pages
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Download or read book The Pacific Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David K. Lynch
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Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Field Guide to the San Andreas Fault written by David K. Lynch and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Smith Taylor
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Total Pages : 310 pages
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Download or read book The Indianology of California written by Alexander Smith Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Mayhew
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ISBN 13 : 0191579599
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Geography written by Susan Mayhew and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Géographie].
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Total Pages : 1594 pages
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Download or read book West's Federal Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cases decided in the United States district courts, United States Court of International Trade, and rulings of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.
Author : Monterey County (Calif.). Farm Bureau
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Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Monterey County Farm Bureau Monthly written by Monterey County (Calif.). Farm Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Macgregor
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Total Pages : 802 pages
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Download or read book Historical and statistical written by John Macgregor and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
