Southern California: An Island on the Land / Edition 9

by Carey McWilliams

Overview

Packed with magnificent material on Southern California's Galaxy of personalities, this book provides insights into subjects ranging from the origins of Hollywood to the flowering of International-style Architecture, and It Does. That by looking at personalities as diverse as Helen Hunt Jackson to Aimee Semple McPherson, Huntington The Financier to Hatfield the Rainmaker.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780879050078
Publisher:	Smith, Gibbs Publisher
Publication date:	03/15/1980
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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Introduction

If years before I wrote Southern California: An Island on the Land, I had planned to write it, then it could be said that I picked exactly the right time to settle in the region, that my work experience was providential, and that I selected precisely the right group of friends. But of course I did not plan to write the book; it grew out of my experiences in a perfectly natural way. Let me explain.