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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The California Dream, the California Nightmare written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Greenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781892746351
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (463 download)
Download or read book California written by Michael Greenberg and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles L. Crow
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1839983817
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (399 download)
Download or read book California Gothic: The Dark Side of the Dream written by Charles L. Crow and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California Gothic explores the California dream and its dark inversion as a nightmare, as illustrated in fiction, poetry, and film. California began as a literary invention, a magic island, in a Spanish romance before conquistadors first visited the land. From early days to the present, the California dream of happiness in a land of new beginnings has been maintained by suppression of disturbing realities: above all, the destruction of native peoples; and by events and facts such as the tragedy of the Donner Party, the persistence of poverty and crime in the golden land, disturbing crimes such as the Black Dahlia; and pandemics and ecological disaster. This book explores a rich Gothic tradition that exposes the repressed past and imagines the fates awaiting a failed California.
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199923256
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986-12-04 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country.
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Americans and the California Dream
ISBN 13 : 9780195157970
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (579 download)
Download or read book The Dream Endures written by Kevin Starr and published by Americans and the California Dream. This book was released on 1997 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Or the new breed of female star - Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Carole Lombard, and the improbable Mae West - The Dream Endures is a brilliant social and cultural history.
Author : Jason S. Sexton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000990400
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Redemptive Dreams written by Jason S. Sexton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential piece in California Studies, Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starr’s California offers the first critical engagement with the vision of California’s most ambitious interpreter. While Starr’s multifaceted and polymathic vision of California offered a unique gaze—synthesizing central features, big themes, and incredible problems with the propitious golden dream—his eight-volume California Dream series, along with several other books and thousands of published articles and essays, often puzzled historians and other scholars. Historians in the contemporary school of critical historiography often found Starr’s narrative approach—seeking to tell the internal drama of the California story—to be less attuned to the most important work happening in the field. Such a perspective fails to acknowledge key developments in historical subfields like Black and African American Studies, Chicana/o/x Studies, Asian Studies, Native Studies, and others that draw from the narrative in their critical work and how this relates to Starr’s contribution. But it also neglects Starr as a theological interpreter. Along with being a major figure in California institutional life, with literary output spanning genres from journalism to critical cultural and political commentary, to history and memoir, Starr’s unique contribution to California Studies as a distinctly Catholic historian has yet to be adequately understood. Through his lived experience as a devout Catholic to the particular theological features of this faith tradition that animated his views, this critical sociological perspective sheds new light on his project. With contributions from sociology, history, and theology, akin to investigations appearing in Theology and California: Theological Refractions on California’s Culture (Routledge), Redemptive Dreams offers interdisciplinary perspectives that highlight key features inherent in interdisciplinary theological reflection on place and illuminates these diverse disciplinary discourses as they appear in Starr’s articulation of the California Dream. Such a vision remains important for reckoning with California’s place in the world.
Author : Mark Arax
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101875216
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Dreamt Land written by Mark Arax and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, that is straining to keep up with California's relentless growth. The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the "Golden State" myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation's biggest farmers—the nut king, grape king and citrus queen—tell their story here for the first time. Arax, the native son, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned, awe-inspiring, tragic and revelatory. In the end, his compassion for the land becomes an elegy to the dream that created California and now threatens to undo it.
Author : John H. Cox
Publisher : Post Hill Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (884 download)
Download or read book The Newsom Nightmare written by John H. Cox and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time when American politics is at its lowest ebb, and when political leadership is notably absent across the ideological spectrum, one politician stands apart as a particularly unfortunate exemplar of everything that is wrong with our national leadership. Gavin Newsom. In this detailed and infuriating exposé of how big money has corrupted the political process at every level of society, businessman and philanthropist John Cox uses Newsom’s career to analyze how and why the system operates as it does. Politicians are bought and paid for by moneyed interests; media coverage is determined, first and foremost, by financial concerns; and the average citizen is fully disenfranchised from determining electoral or policy outcomes. And nowhere is this more evident—with tragic results—than in Gavin Newsom’s collapsing California. The cost of living is out of control; a homelessness epidemic is on the rise; there’s a shortage of housing, water, and energy; crime rates are at an all-time high; wildfires cause devastation at alarming rates each year; and high taxes make it nearly impossible to start a small business. We’re beginning to see these trends spread throughout the United States. As the old saying goes, “as goes California, so goes the nation.” Our system must be reformed. This book doesn’t just lay out the problems; it posits a workable and easy to implement solution that will work to get this country—and California—back on track. In The Newsom Nightmare, Cox deftly and succinctly provides an alternative that would, if implemented, put the American body politic back on solid ground.
Author : Kathryn Wright Smith
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493156500
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)
Download or read book California Dreams written by Kathryn Wright Smith and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melissa Kellogg was your average teenager from sunny California until that fateful day when her dad was transferred to Alabama. Thomas Jefferson High School will never be the same when this junior comes to town. Melissa learns to make new friends while keeping the old ones. She must learn to juggle family, high school crushes, and broken hearts. Can Melissa make a new life in a new place or will she run to her comfortable life back in Cali?
Author : Carey McWilliams
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520218932
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (189 download)
Download or read book California written by Carey McWilliams and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-04-02 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition is graced by a new foreword by Lewis Lapham.
Author : Marjorie S. Zatz
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520283066
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Dreams and Nightmares written by Marjorie S. Zatz and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams and Nightmares takes a critical look at the challenges and dilemmas of immigration policy and practice in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform. The experiences of children and youth provide a prism through which the interwoven dynamics and consequences of immigration policy become apparent. Using a unique sociolegal perspective, authors Zatz and Rodriguez examine the mechanisms by which immigration policies and practices mitigate or exacerbate harm to vulnerable youth. They pay particular attention to prosecutorial discretion, assessing its potential and limitations for resolving issues involving parental detention and deportation, unaccompanied minors, and Dreamers who came to the United States as young children. The book demonstrates how these policies and practices offer a means of prioritizing immigration enforcement in ways that alleviate harm to children, and why they remain controversial and vulnerable to political challenges.
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Americans and the California D
ISBN 13 : 0195100808
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Endangered Dreams written by Kevin Starr and published by Americans and the California D. This book was released on 1996 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of California in the 1930s, discussing topics that include the depression, Utpon Sinclair's campaign for governor, Harry Bridges and the San Francisco general strike, and the public and private relief programs for the more than one million emigrants from the dust bowl.
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Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (666 download)
Download or read book Material Dreams written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victoria Farnsworth
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500958374
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (583 download)
Download or read book Changing Tide written by Victoria Farnsworth and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Tide is a memoir of the teenage years of Victoria Farnsworth, aka Clara the Clown. Faced with all of the normal challenges a typical teenager endures, she also had the added stress of coping with the negative criticism from her mother. After being reminded too many times that she was ugly, and that she could never attract a boy, Vicki set a goal to move to California and live with her biological father. Warren Van Pelt, Vicki's father, was a retired naval officer who then worked in Los Angeles for a large hardware company. He had just joined the Mormon Church prior to Vicki moving in with him. Vicki's Methodist minister had admonished her to stay away from the Mormons because they would be relentless in their pursuit of bringing her into their fold. Her minister told her that the Mormons worshiped the Devil! Vicki had a dream of becoming an actress and her father said that he knew people in the business who could help her achieve her goal. In the innocence of youth, and with the bravery of Don Quixote, Vicki left Bainbridge Island, Washington and moved to California to pursue her dream of becoming an actress and to rescue her father from the Mormons. Instead of the happy, carefree life she envisioned, almost every day was filled with hardship and trials she had never dreamed of. The first two nights in her new home were sheer terror, and Vicki struggled emotionally over the decision to share with her Mormon neighbor, the horror she was facing because of her father. Vicki did tell, and her father had to report daily to his local priesthood leader. Her father's indiscretions ceased immediately, but he never did grasp the seriousness of how his actions had affected Vicki. He also never took financial responsibility for Vicki's needs, and she had to fend for herself. Amidst the turmoil of high school, odd jobs, and pursuing a career in acting, Vicki also was doing her best to keep the Mormon missionaries at bay. Week after week, every Saturday morning, two missionaries would show up at her door. She was always polite, but firm in her resolve to send them away unsuccessful. Then one day, her life was changed forever, when an extremely disabled missionary challenged her to pray to know the truth. Vicki's experience as she prayed was life-changing in and of itself. However, the answer to her prayer was just as significant and the outcome has lasted over 50 years. The hardships and trials continued, as did the joys and sweet peace of the gospel. Vicki was taught many times over, that the good far outweighs the bad, but not without a struggle.
Author : Steven Berndt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (55 download)
Download or read book California Dreamin' in the Great Depression written by Steven Berndt and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dayton Lummis
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595371868
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Captain Midnight and the California Drea written by Dayton Lummis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT AND THE CALIFORNIA DREAM is an impressionistic journey of more than 50 years of extremely uneven and often strangely disconnected experiences in California. It stretches from the author's father's hardscrabble ranch in the remote mountains above Los Angeles, through ups and downs in an always-unpredictable California, ending, more or less, at a lonely and primitive ranch in the desert. The book is filled with unique characters, bizarre situations, and views of an always changing and, the author would charge, deteriorating California. From city streets to quiet rural areas, the author seems to have been aware of an ominous cloud filled with unease hovering over the Golden State. In this book he chronicles his drift of over 50 years in the shadow of this cloud, the California dream dim and elusive. Real, but only a dream...
Author : Philip L. Fradkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520209428
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Seven States of California written by Philip L. Fradkin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-05-12 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Philip Fradkin's work is full of foresight, good sense, and an understanding of the ties between social and environmental dilemmas. Taking Fradkin's writing seriously is an important step in figuring out the American West today."—Patricia Nelson Limerick
