The Great Towns of Southern California
Author | : David Vokac |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : California, Southern |
ISBN | : 9780930743079 |
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Author | : David Vokac |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : California, Southern |
ISBN | : 9780930743079 |
Author | : David Vokac |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : California, Northern |
ISBN | : 9780930743086 |
Author | : David Vokac |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Travel |
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Author | : Philip Varney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : California, Southern |
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Author | : David Vokac |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780930743062 |
Author | : James Fallows |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2018-05-08 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1101871857 |
NATIONAL BEST SELLER • The basis for the HBO documentary now streaming on HBO Max For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.
Author | : Philip Varney |
Publisher | : Voyageur Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2012-07-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1610585631 |
Ghost Towns of California is a guidebook to the state's best boomtowns. Once thriving, these abandoned mining camps and pioneer villages still ring with history. Ghost town expert Philip Varney equips you with everything you need to know to explore these remnants of the past. Featured are color maps, driving and walking directions, town histories, touring recommendations, and stunning color photography of 70 sites, including the famous Bodie. Come see where it all started at the mother lode, and trace the great migration throughout the region. Visit the northern mines and the ghosts of San Francisco Bay, the Eastern Sierra, Death Valley, and the Mojave Desert. This is the essential guidebook to the glory days of the Old West!
Author | : Joan Tapper |
Publisher | : Thames and Hudson |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-08-28 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780500513682 |
Showcasing the most beautiful villages and towns of California, this collection of Wheelers stunning photography and Tappers perceptive commentaries evokes not just historic houses but also streetscapes, parks, and physical surroundings.
Author | : Steve Early |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2017-01-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0807094277 |
The People vs. Big Oil—how a working-class company town harnessed the power of local politics to reclaim their community With a foreword by Bernie Sanders Home to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town, dominated by Chevron. This largely nonwhite, working-class city of 100,000 suffered from poverty, pollution, and poorly funded public services. It had one of the highest homicide rates per capita in the country and a jobless rate twice the national average. But when veteran labor reporter Steve Early moved from New England to Richmond in 2012, he discovered a city struggling to remake itself. In Refinery Town, Early chronicles the 15 years of successful community organizing that raised the local minimum wage, defeated a casino development project, challenged home foreclosures and evictions, and sought fair taxation of Big Oil. A short list of Richmond’s activist residents helps to propel this compelling chronicle: • 94 year old Betty Reid Soskin, the country’s oldest full-time national park ranger and witness to Richmond’s complex history • Gayle McLaughlin, the Green Party mayor who challenged Chevron and won • Police Chief Chris Magnus, who brought community policing to Richmond and is now one of America’s leading public safety reformers Part urban history, part call to action, Refinery Town shows how concerned citizens can harness the power of local politics to reclaim their community and make municipal government a source of much-needed policy innovation. “Refinery Town provides an inside look at how one American city has made radical and progressive change seem not only possible but sensible.”—David Helvarg, The Progressive
Author | : Edwin Markham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
"No writer of today knows his California more thoroughly or to better purpose than does Edwin Markham, the poet. Although a native of Oregon, Mr. Markham went to California with his parents as a five-year-old boy and literally grew up with the State. It was his fortune to know personally many leaders in the formative period of the Pacific Coast, and his interest in the development of the community has not lessened with the advancing years. Of the various books concerning the Coast that have been published during the current season, Mr. Markham's "California the Wonderful" is the most comprehensive and attractive, treating as it does, not only of the romantic history of the State, the picturesque features of her people, the scenic glories of her mountains, and other aspects of the subject that would naturally appeal to a man of Mr. Markham's temperament and vision, but also of the more prosaic side of the State's development--her mineral and horticultural resources, the growth of her great cities, and other phases of her political and economic history."--Review of Reviews, Vol. 52.