Southern California: An Island on the Land
A History, Cities, American History book. I think of the view from a favorite arroyo in the late afternoon,...
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- Pages: 416 pages
- ISBN: 9780879050078 / 879050071
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I think of the view from a favorite arroyo in the late afternoon, the east slope still bathed in sunlight, the far slope already full of dark shade and lengthening shadows. A cool breeze, as one can look across the plains, out over miles of homes and trees, and hear the faraway hum of traffic on the high-ways and see the golden light filtering through the mist-laden air. Carey McWilliams, Southern California: An Island on the Land // To own an orange grove in Southern California is to live on the real gold coast of American agriculture. Carey McWilliams, Southern California: An Island on the Land //
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/di... Fascinating look at the development of Los Angeles from its earliest days--political, sociological, cultural. McWilliams, a superb writer and dedicated leftist, was editor of the Nation after years of being a newspaper man in Los Angeles. This book provides a brief history of and description of Southern California's geography, history and culture of the 1920s to the 1950s. Looking from the vantage point of 2010 SoCal after having been away for ten years, I learned how little SoCal had changed.
