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Author : Carl Palm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-01-05
The Great California Story written by Carl Palm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-05 with History categories.
The Great California Story: Portrait of a Place That Is One of a Kind is, like its subject, one of a kind and a book that focuses almost exclusively on the things that make California unique--unique in the way it was settled and developed, unique in its urban and natural landscapes, unique in its role as a leader and innovator in American life. Coming almost twenty years after its original release in 2004, this new edition features a revised narrative structure, extensive chapter notes and an equally extensive bibliography. It is a must-read for anyone interested in California, especially in the things that make it so different from everywhere else.
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Author : Carl Robert Palm
language : en
Publisher: Booklocker.com
Release Date : 2004
The Great California Story written by Carl Robert Palm and has been published by Booklocker.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with California categories.
From Mark Twain to Jack LaLanne, and from conquistadors to health-food stores, The Great California Story covers it all. If you've ever wondered just what it is that makes California, well, California, you'll find your answer here.
The Great California Story
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Author : Carl Palm
language : en
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Release Date : 2004
The Great California Story written by Carl Palm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with California categories.
The Great California Story examines all the many things that have gone into making California such an extraordinary place. From Mark Twain to Jack LaLanne, and from conquistadors to health-food stores, The Great California Story covers it all. The result is a richly-detailed portrait of a place that is always as interesting as its reputation. Once you've read all the way through this engaging account of how the Golden State got to be the way it is, you're unlikely to ever see it quite the same way again.
Great California Stories
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Author : Arthur Grove Day
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1991-01-01
Great California Stories written by Arthur Grove Day and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-01 with Fiction categories.
In 1510 a Spanish romancer described an island called California, "very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise." It was inhabited by Amazons, and even the harnesses of the beasts they rode were gold. Thus began the rich literature of California. In a place that boasts so many claims to one's attention, short fiction has flourished. Great California Stories trumpets the immense short story tradition developed by visitors like Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce but mostly by natives like Jack London and John Steinbeck. The twenty-one stories in this anthology go back to the oral tradition of the American Indians and recall the Hispanic settlement, the gold rush of the 1850s, the agricultural epoch, the growth of cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles, the foibles of early Hollywood, and the rise of ghettos. The ethnic diversity of California is reflected in a cast of story characters including Indians, mission fathers, Asians, Mexican Americans, African Americans, and forty-niners and landseekers from the eastern states. California's varied scenery is drawn on in stories with a strong sense of place, whether Steinbeck's Salinas Valley or Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles. Besides Steinbeck and Chandler, authors represented are Theodora Kroeber, Bret Harte, Gertrude Atherton, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Edwin Cone, Jack London, Idwal Jones, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Dashiel Hammett, Eugene Burdick, Janet Lewis, Wallace Stegner, and Danny Santiago. For them California is a memorable background, sometimes a fabulous character, always a distinctive quality.
Foucault In California A True Story Wherein The Great French Philosopher Drops Acid In The Valley Of Death
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Author : Simeon Wade
language : en
Publisher: Heyday Books
Release Date : 2021-06
Foucault In California A True Story Wherein The Great French Philosopher Drops Acid In The Valley Of Death written by Simeon Wade and has been published by Heyday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking "nostalgically...of 'an unforgettable evening on LSD, in carefully prepared doses, in the desert night, with delicious music, [and] nice people'". This came to pass in 1975, when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade-ostensibly to guest-lecture at the Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor, but in truth to explore what he called the Valley of Death. Led by Wade and Wade's partner Michael Stoneman, Foucault experimented with psychotropic drugs for the first time; by morning he was crying and proclaiming that he knew Truth. Foucault in California is Wade's firsthand account of that long weekend. Felicitous and often humorous prose vaults readers headlong into the erudite and subversive circles of the Claremont intelligentsia: parties in Wade's bungalow, intensive dialogues between Foucault and his disciples at a Taoist utopia in the Angeles Forest (whose denizens call Foucault "Country Joe"); and, of course, the fabled synesthetic acid trip in Death Valley, set to the strains of Bach and Stockhausen. Part search for higher consciousness, part bacchanal, this book chronicles a young man's burgeoning friendship with one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers.
The Great Thirst
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Author : Norris Hundley Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-11-15
The Great Thirst written by Norris Hundley Jr. and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-15 with Nature categories.
The story of "the great thirst" is brought up to date in this revised edition of Norris Hundley's outstanding history, with additional photographs and incisive descriptions of the major water-policy issues facing California now: accelerating urbanization of farmland and open spaces, persisting despoliation of water supplies, and demands for equity in water allocation for an exploding population. People the world over confront these problems, and Hundley examines them with clarity and eloquence in the unruly laboratory of California. The obsession with water has shaped California to a remarkable extent, literally as well as politically and culturally. Hundley tells how aboriginal Americans and then early Spanish and Mexican immigrants contrived to use and share the available water and how American settlers, arriving in ever-increasing numbers after the Gold Rush, transformed California into the home of the nation's preeminent water seekers. The desire to use, profit from, manipulate, and control water drives the people and events in this fascinating narrative until, by the end of the twentieth century, a large, colorful cast of characters and communities has wheeled and dealed, built, diverted, and connived its way to an entirely different statewide waterscape.
The Legend Of Proposition 13
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Author : Joel Fox
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Legend Of Proposition 13 written by Joel Fox and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Law categories.
Proposition 13 was the greatest tax revolt in American history since the Boston Tea Party. In June 1978, Californians rose up behind a colorful, irascible, unlikely leader, 74-year-old Howard Jarvis, and turned the political world upside down. The first shot in the Reagan Revolution, the Proposition 13 tax revolt changed the world. Told by an insider, this is the story of the politics, odd tales and bizarre arguments that surround the fabled tax revolt from its success at the polls to its survival, despite constant attacks, 25 years later. It is the story of a legend in the making.
This Day In California History
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Author : Carl Palm
language : en
Publisher: Sunbelt Publications
Release Date : 2008
This Day In California History written by Carl Palm and has been published by Sunbelt Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
The fun of threading the detail of history together the way it is done in this book, with a significant event from California's history listed for every day of the year, is that much that might not find its way into a more traditionally written history can be brought into the sweep of the story. It also broadens the reader's view of just what history is, and exposes a wealth of information that is interesting in and of itself.Professor Kevin Starr of the University of Southern California, one of the world's leading authorities on California history, described Carl Palm's first book, The Great California Story, as an “eclectic, idiosyncratic, and always lively foray into the complexities of the California experience. This new book is in the same vein, adding new and fascinating detail to the author's ever-evolving vision of what California is all about.
The Octopus
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Author : Frank Norris
language : en
Publisher: The Floating Press
Release Date : 2010-10-01
The Octopus written by Frank Norris and has been published by The Floating Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with Fiction categories.
At first glance, wheat farming may not appear to be a scintillating topic for a novel, but in the hands of renowned social realist Frank Norris, this seemingly quotidian activity is transformed into a fascinating analysis of the economic factors that spurred the expansion into the western United States. The first novel in a planned trilogy that Norris never completed, The Octopus: A Story of California is an enlightening and gratifying read.
Great Expectations The Story Of Benicia California
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Author : Richard Dillon
language : en
Publisher: James d Stevenson Pub
Release Date : 2002-07-01
Great Expectations The Story Of Benicia California written by Richard Dillon and has been published by James d Stevenson Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-01 with Fiction categories.
The history of Benicia, California from its founding to the national sesquicentennial celebration of 1976.