California

An American History

By: John Mack Faragher

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Paperback | 12 January 2024 | Edition Number 1

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480 Pages

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19.5 x 13.0 x 2.6

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A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation

“A masterful history.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Faragher takes the reader on a captivating journey through myriad twists and turns of California’s multicultural history, enlivened by stories of people who rarely penetrate our traditional state chronicles.”—Carlos E. Cortes, University of California, Riverside

California is the most multicultural state in America. As John Mack Faragher explains in this new history, California’s natural variety has always supported such diversity, including Native peoples speaking dozens of distinct languages, Spanish and Mexican colonists, gold seekers from all corners of the globe, and successive migrant waves from the eastern United States and from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific Islands.

Faragher tells the stories of a colorful cast of characters—some famous, others mostly unknown—including African American Archy Lee, who sued for his freedom; Sinkyone Indian woman Sally Bell, who survived genocide; and Jewish schoolgirl Marilyn Greene, who spoke up for her Japanese friends after the attack on Pearl Harbor. California’s diversity has often led to conflict, turmoil, and violence but also to invention, improvisation, and a struggle to achieve multicultural democracy.

Industry Reviews

"Faragher takes the reader on a captivating journey through myriad twists and turns of California's multicultural history, enlivened by stories of people who rarely penetrate our traditional state chronicles."-Carlos E. Cortes, University of California, Riverside

"It is often said that California has little history. But there's nothing little about this beautifully illustrated and written book, which brilliantly distills the depth and diversity of California's past."-Stephen Aron, Autry Museum of the American West

"With verve, clarity, and erudition, John Mack Faragher has wrestled California's monumental, tragic, triumphant, immense history into a single volume. This is a superb book by one of our most insightful scholars of the far West. A signal achievement."-William Deverell, Institute on California and the West

"John Mack Faragher understands the promise, and the heartbreak, of California. This is a wonderfully concentrated but comprehensive and evocative history of the most American of states."-James Fallows, coauthor of Our Towns

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