From west to east : California and the making of the American mind /

Schwartz, Stephen, -1948

From west to east : California and the making of the American mind / Stephen Schwartz. - New York : Free Press, c1998. - 566 p. 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-537) and index.

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.

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F 861 / .Sch95 1998