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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 115

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2400

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ISBN: 9780874841367
Category : California
Languages : en
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Author: Ronald A. Wells
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ISBN: 9781532602405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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California matters, both as a place and as an idea. What famed historian Kevin Starr has called ""the California Dream"" is a vital part of American self-understanding. Just as America was meant to be a place of renewal, even redemption, for Europe, so too California was intended as a place of renewal for America. Therefore, California--place and idea--provides a fertile ground for scholars to think deeply about what it means to articulate ""the promise of American life."" This book follows in the train of George Marsden's classic The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship--believing that people of faith have a contribution to make to scholarship--and of Jay Green's more recent book, Christian Historiography: Five Rival Views--believing that scholars of faith should engage in moral inquiry. In this book, eight authors inquire into the moral questions that emerge from studying California. ""This superb collection demonstrates how much fresh historical insight can be gained by careful examination of a single state in the USA. The book's particular virtue is to show how a theological interpretive framework illuminates questions of race, urbanization, the environment, immigration, and more. The individual essays are penetrating, the entire effect superb."" --Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame ""Anyone with a curiosity about California will find matters to savor in this engaging volume. The essays reflect the moral seriousness of their authors and also offer accessible windows to contemplate some of the many diversities of a truly remarkable state."" --George M. Marsden, University of Notre Dame ""The eclectic essays of California Dreaming give us glimpses of what has made the place coveted land and contested ground over the past two centuries. Filled with vibrant personalities and causes as diverse as the state itself, the stories told here remind us of the ongoing value of reflections--both historical and moral--upon the California experience."" --Richard Pointer, Westmont College ""As a resident of another border state, Texas, that is as much an idea as a place, I appreciate how California serves as a reflection in micro of what America itself can or should mean. This book inspires that sort of reflection and is, therefore, useful and of interest to anyone hoping to come to grips with questions of place and meaning in a postmodern era."" --Barry Hankins, Baylor University ""California, for good and perhaps not always for good, has been the beacon of America's future for a century and a half. Yet there are many Californias, and they lead us in different directions. In this thought-provoking book, eight Christian scholars engage the past and the present, north and south, race and gender, politics, and the landscape itself. Throughout, they pursue not an agenda but a moral perspective. There is much here to delight the mind."" --Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara Ronald Wells is Professor Emeritus of History at Calvin College, Michigan. He is now Associate Director of the Maryville-Lee Symposium on Faith and the Liberal Arts at Maryville College, Tennessee. His many books include History Through the Eyes of Faith, History and the Christian Historian and The Wars of America: Christian Views.

Author: Manuel Pastor
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620973308
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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“Concise, clear and convincing. . . a vision for the country as a whole.” —James Fallows, The New York Times Book Review A leading sociologist's brilliant and revelatory argument that the future of politics, work, immigration, and more may be found in California Once upon a time, any mention of California triggered unpleasant reminders of Ronald Reagan and right-wing tax revolts, ballot propositions targeting undocumented immigrants, and racist policing that sparked two of the nation's most devastating riots. In fact, California confronted many of the challenges the rest of the country faces now—decades before the rest of us. Today, California is leading the way on addressing climate change, low-wage work, immigrant integration, overincarceration, and more. As white residents became a minority and job loss drove economic uncertainty, California had its own Trump moment twenty-five years ago, but has become increasingly blue over each of the last seven presidential elections. How did the Golden State manage to emerge from its unsavory past to become a bellwether for the rest of the country? Thirty years after Mike Davis's hellish depiction of California in City of Quartz, the award-winning sociologist Manuel Pastor guides us through a new and improved California, complete with lessons that the nation should heed. Inspiring and expertly researched, State of Resistance makes the case for honestly engaging racial anxiety in order to address our true economic and generational challenges, a renewed commitment to public investments, the cultivation of social movements and community organizing, and more.

Author: Jack Cashill
Publisher: Pocket Books
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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There's an unspoken fault line in California. No, not the San Andreas Fault nor any of the geologic ones we all know about. This fault line is cultural -- formed by the waves of ethnic and social groups that have rammed willy-nilly into California and now refuse to get along. Californians today worry about "The Big One," but it's a cultural cataclysm they -- and the rest of us -- should fear. When writer and columnist Jack Cashill was skewered along with Kansas (despite the fact that he lives in Missouri) in Thomas Frank'sNew York TimesbestsellerWhat's the Matter with Kansas?, he decided to fight back with a riposte from the heart -- an honest, biting, and wickedly funny look at what's wrong with the purplest of blue states: almighty California itself. The media moguls, multiculturalists, union bosses, and eco-warriors who run California have abandoned liberalism for total insanity. They have transformed the Golden State from America's future into America's Rome. Spectacularly sybaritic and self-indulgent, overtaxed and overregulated, California lives on past glories, and even Conan the Republican cannot muster the will to defend its borders. Now, finally, Jack Cashill is here to rally the right-thinking citizens of the state (and the nation) and rescue this gorgeous chunk of real estate from its increasingly shaky future.

Author: United States. President
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 956

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Publisher: Office of the Federal Register
ISBN: 9780160480492
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1468

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Contains public messages and statements of the President of the United States released by the White House from January 1 to June 30, 2002.

Author: California Park and Recreation Society
Publisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 9780736067140
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Creating Community will help you position your department to increase your budget and reposition it as a key player in the community. You'll learn to implement a VIP action plan as created by the California Park & Recreation Society. You'll also learn to make a case for your programs by communicating your plan to policy makers and others.

Author: United States. President (1993-2001 : Clinton)
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 1492

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