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John Walton Caughey was an author and educator, who was considered the dean of California historians and a leading intellectual civil libertarian. A history professor at UCLA from 1930 until his retirement in 1970, Caughey wrote textbooks and scholarly articles that were so readable they became popular with mainstream readers. With his wife, they have compiled not only what purports to be, but is in truth, California's heritage. Utilizing chronological...
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The author's personal preferences for 31 works which have been read beyond a single generation, ranging from Anza's California Expedition to Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely, are the subject of this illuminating study of the creative impulse of writers, not necessarily native sons, who have made California the setting of their masterpieces. In combining biography and criticism the author has gone to the original sources of each work, seeking...
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