From west to east
Subtitle: California and the making of the American mind
By: Stephen Schwartz
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 566
Subjects: Intellectual life; History
Description: Artfully weaving together the strands of California's social, political, and cultural history, Schwartz chronicles the state's turbulent life from the Spanish conquest through the Civil War, the labor movement, the Great Depression, and the birth of modern cultural radicalism in the Beatnik revolution and the Berkeley Free Speech Movement.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-537) and index.