Berkeley : a city in history /

Wollenberg, Charles.

Berkeley : a city in history / Charles Wollenberg. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008. - xi, 224 p. : ill. 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-209) and index.

A sweeping panorama of Berkeley by one of California's finest historians. Wollenberg knows this city like no one else, and he has the rare capacity to link a compelling local narrative to larger currents in American politics, economics and culture. This book has no rivals. Anyone who cares about Berkeley--and there are many--will devour it with pleasure.--Richard Walker, Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley. www.alibris.com

9780520253070

F 869.B5 / .W834 2008