California Dreams: The Making and Remaking of the University of California

Pulitzer Prize winner Miriam Pawel's epic history of one of the world's elite public universities, its sweeping social impact, and hopeful lessons about endurance in troubled times.

Distinguished by its founding mission as an engine of upward mobility, the University of California-a constitutionally independent public trust-is a great American experiment that has persevered through fraught battles over access, funding, and leadership.

The University has been at the nexus of nearly every publ...