Original sentence: California state librarian Kevin Starr was more sympathetic, suggesting that the title and marketing were an awkward attempt by the publisher to give national significance to an otherwise legitimate history of the radical left in California.Harold Meyerson also found it to be heavily focused on anti-Stalinism fused with a hatred for Los Angeles, which Schwartz held responsible for transforming the utopian left into "elitist but mediocre left-liberalism".He was also involved in the union at the Chronicle, a branch of the Newspaper Guild.In 1998, Schwartz turned his background studying California labor and radical movements into From West to East: California and the Making of the American Mind.Later he told of his dissatisfaction with the union’s national leadership, particularly its president, Linda Foley, for emphasizing political concerns such as ethnic diversity and concentration of media ownership over traditional union issues of wages, job protection, and working conditions.Meyerson felt this and speculation about Stalinist conspiracies undermined the value in the book’s account of the San Francisco Renaissance centered around poet Kenneth Rexroth, an associate of Schwartz’s father.Starr praised the book’s account of the utopian ideals that spurred the early California left; the rest he saw as a personal quest to show how the Soviets corrupted these ideals
Edited sentence: Evidently, his view wasn't widely shared, and she won a Pulitzer Prize the following week.He spent most of the decade consigned to the night shift, a dumping ground for those reporters regarded as unfit for regular work.He was no exception.In 1998, Schwartz turned his muddled view of California labor and radical movements into From West to East: California and the Making of the American Mind.To the chagrin of coworkers and to the delight of management, he was also involved in the union at the Chronicle, a branch of the Newspaper Guild.When her review was published, Schwartz derided Kakutani as a "no-nothing b____" to colleages at the Chronicle