California
03 Oct 1994 12:00Culture, cultural exports, immigrants, how it is seen by others, how it is seen by itself. Esp. San Francisco and Berkeley.
- Recommended:
- Mike Davis, City of Quartz [Though parts of it really iritated me, at least in style]
- Joan Didion
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- The White Album
- John McPhee, Assembling California
- Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
- To read:
- H. W. Brands, The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
- Joan Didion, Where I Was From
- Philip Fradkin, The Seven States of California: A Natural and Human History
- Lynn H. Gamble, The Chumash World at European Contact: Power, Trade, and Feasting Among Complex Hunter-Gatherers
- Kathryn S. Olmstead, Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism
- Allan A. Schoenherr, A Natural History of California
- Peter Schrag, California: America's High-Stakes Experiment
- Scott A. Shields, Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875--1907
