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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Free Press, c1998.Description: 566 p. 25 cmISBN:
  • 684831341
LOC classification:
  • F 861 .Sch95 1998
Summary: 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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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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