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Fool's paradise : a Carey McWilliams reader / edited by Dean Steward and Jeannine Gendar ; foreword by Wilson Carey McWilliams ; introduction by Gray Brechin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McWilliams, Carey, 1905-1980.
- Series:
- California legacy book
- A California legacy book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social conditions.
- California--History.
- California.
- History.
- California--Social conditions.
- California--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Clara : Santa Clara University ; Berkeley : Heyday Books, [2001]
- Summary:
- "I never lost a feeling for the importance of idealism in keeping alive the belief that injustices can be corrected and inequalities lessened." So wrote Carey McWilliams (1905-1980), the historian, journalist, activist, and iconoclast who chronicled the history of California and the West for a period of nearly sixty years. Perceptive, cynical, yet somehow heartening, McWilliams wrote history with both passion and an eye for detail, with both literary flair and scholarly integrity.
- From faith healers and rainmakers to agribusiness and party politics, from California's love affair with its Hispanic past to its harsh treatment of Mexican immigrants, from the folklore of earthquakes to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, Fool's Paradise presents the best writings of one of America's most incisive and influential thinkers. This compilation of material from several of McWilliams' books and magazine articles is simultaneously amusing, heartbreaking, and despite the passage of time, shockingly relevant today.
- Contents:
- Mecca of the Miraculous
- The Growth of a Legend 3
- Mecca of the Miraculous 17
- Sister Aimee 31
- "God Will Slap You Cockeyed" 35
- The Folklore of Earthquakes 39
- The Politics of Utopia 43
- The Politics of Exclusion
- The Lynching of Juanita 79
- The Long-Suffering Chinese 85
- The Joads at Home 99
- Exodus from the West Coast 107
- Storm Signals 139
- The Abuse of Power
- Water! Water! Water! 147
- The Wheatland Riot 165
- The Pattern of Violence 175
- Blood on the Pavements 193
- The Practice of Politics
- Strange Doings in California 209
- The Education of Evans Carlson 213
- Mr. Tenney's Horrible Awakening 221
- Bungling in California 227
- The Old Fresno Magic 231
- The Kennedys Take Over 233
- Has Success Spoiled Dick Nixon? 237
- The Politics of Personality 243
- Mr. Nixon and the Press 245
- How to Succeed with the Backlash 247
- Paradise Reagan-ed 253
- Living in Five Worlds 257.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1890771414
- OCLC:
- 46937422
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