California History articles from December 2008

California History archives from December 2008

Sightlines.(FROM THE EDITOR)(Editorial)
December 22, 2008... We learn more about the world from images than we used to. In teaching and learning, selling and buying, working and playing, thinking and imagining, people of all ages draw on and depend on the sight of actual or created pictures, symbols, and...

Commercial catalogues.(COLLECTIONS)
December 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] "There is nothing that gives that restful and cool environment to your garden and makes it so complete, as a little pool of water," claimed the proprietors of Allen's Water Gardens in their catalogue of pools for...

The good doctor, the social engineer, and the golfing gems of California.(Alister MacKenzie, Robert Hunter)(Essay)
December 22, 2008... I have to shake myself, as in a dream, when I think that Robert Hunter and I have the high privilege of landscaping with golf courses part of this precious area." (1) Thus spoke the legendary British golf course architect Dr. Alister...

The mark of Zorro: silent film's impact on 1920s architecture in Los Angeles.(Los Angeles, California)(Essay)
December 22, 2008... In these fictional presentations [films] the educative influence has been... insidious. The audience opened its mind to the plot and the background made its certain impression--unsought, but effective. The motion picture should be taken...

Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... DRIVEN OUT: THE FORGOTTEN WAR AGAINST CHINESE AMERICANS Jean Pfaelzer (New York: Random House, 2007, 432 pp., illus., $27.95 cloth) Driven Out is a highly detailed account of the waves of anti-Chinese violence that swept the United...

Wallace Stegner and the American West.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... WALLACE STEGNER AND THE AMERICAN WEST By Philip L. Fradkin (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008, 384 pp., $27.50 cloth) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PHILIP FRADKIN has written a well-researched, jam-packed biography of Wallace Stegner,...

The Mysterious Montague: a True Tale of Hollywood, Golf, and Armed Robbery.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... THE MYSTERIOUS MONTAGUE: A TRUE TALE OF HOLLYWOOD, GOLF, AND ARMED ROBBERY By Leigh Montville (New York: Random House, 2008, 320 pp., $26.00 cloth) TODAY, GOLF CAN BE a lucrative profession. Men and women compete for immense purses on...

Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and The Art of Power Politics.
December 22, 2008... BIG DADDY: JESSE UNRUH AND THE ART OF POWER POLITICS By Bill Boyarsky (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, 278 pp., illus., $29.95 cloth) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MOST POLITICIANS ARE highly complex personalities. Bill...

A Seed Of Modernism: the Los Angeles Art Students League, 1906-1953.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... A SEED OF MODERNISM: THE LOS ANGELES ART STUDENTS LEAGUE, 1906-1953 By Will South, Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, and Julia Armstrong-Totten, foreword by Wesley Jessup (Berkeley Pasadena Museum of California Art/Heyday Books, 2008, 160 pp.,...

Immigration at the Golden Gate: Passenger Ships, Exclusion, and Angel Island.('Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion', 'The Opium Debate And Chinese Exclusion laws In The Nineteenth-Century American West')(Book review)
December 22, 2008... IMMIGRATION AT THE GOLDEN GATE: PASSENGER SHIPS, EXCLUSION, AND ANGEL ISLAND By Robert Eric Barde (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008, 304 pp., illus., $49.95 cloth) PAPER FAMILIES: IDENTITY, IMMIGRATION ADMINISTRATION, AND CHINESE EXCLUSION...

Citizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870-1916.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... CITIZEN EMPLOYERS: BUSINESS COMMUNITIES AND LABOR IN CINCINNATI AND SAN FRANCISCO, 1870-1916 By Jeffrey Haydu (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2008, 280 pp., $39.95 cloth) JEFFREY HAYDU, a professor of sociology at the...

The Permanent Tax Revolt: How the Property Tax Transformed American Politics.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... THE PERMANENT TAX REVOLT: HOW THE PROPERTY TAX TRANSFORMED AMERICAN POLITICS By Isaac William Martin (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008, 264 pp., $21.95 paper) WHAT DROVE VOTERS to enact Proposition 13 in California?...

The Country in the City: the Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... THE COUNTRY IN THE CITY: THE GREENING OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA By Richard A. Walker (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007, 424 pp., illus., $35.00 cloth, $24.95 paper) RICHARD WALKER TRACES the story of how the Bay Area...

Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... HISTORICAL MEMORIES OF THE JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT AND THE STRUGGLE FOR REDRESS By Alice Yang Murray (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007, 608 pp., illus., $65.00 cloth) THIS IS AN AMBITIOUS and important, albeit flawed,...

Gold, Silk, Pioneers & Mail: the Story of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... GOLD, SILK, PIONEERS & MAIL: THE STORY OF THE PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY By Robert J. Chandler and Stephen J. Potash (El Cerrito, CA: Glencannon Press/Friends of the San Francisco Maritime Museum Library, 2007, 64 pp., $25.00 paper)...

The Judge: William P. Clark, Ronald Reagan's Top Hand.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... THE JUDGE: WILLIAM P. CLARK, RONALD REAGAN'S TOP HAND By Paul Kengor and Patricia Clark Doerner (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2007, 400 pp., $27.95 cloth) THE COLORFUL LIFE of William P. Clark began on the ranches of Ventura County...

Spotlight.(Photograph)
December 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In his 1926 book on golf course architecture, Robert Hunter noted that the process of his work required "remodeling the face of nature." Alteration of the natural environment is certainly not a new phenomenon in...