History Of California
Caught Inside
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Daniel Duane`s account of a year spent surfing in Santa Cruz is also an entertaining narrative about his native landscape and its history, the cultural history of surfing, and the settling of California--including portraits of famous and infamous su Copyr
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Where I Was from
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Joan Didion, a California native who has defected to New York, refuses to buy into the stereotype of California as a paradise: she takes a long, hard look at her native state and finds it wanting. Beginning with her own family history--they have b...
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California Here We Come
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An introduction to the history, people, and geography of California. Color illustrations accompany the rhyming text. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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Migrant Daughter
Taking us from the open spaces of rural New Mexico and the fields of California's Great Central Valley to the intellectual milieu of student life in Berkeley during the 1950s, this memoir, based on an oral history by Mario T.
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Inventing the Dream
This second volume in Kevin Starr's passionate and ambitious cultural history of the Golden State focuses on the turn-of-the-century years and the emergence of Southern California as a regional culture in its own right.
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