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- Golden State : the making of California / by Hiltzik, Michael,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-412) and index.California, Land of Contradictions -- A Terrestrial Paradise -- The Americans Arrive -- The Bear Flag Revolt -- The Sordid Cry of Gold -- The Thirty-First Star -- The Age of Genocide -- "The Chinese Must Go": San Francisco After the Gold Rush -- The Octopus -- The Shadow of Mussel Slough -- The First Water War -- "City of the Damned" -- The Progressive Revolution -- John Muir and the Battle for Conservation -- Conjuring Los Angeles -- Ghosts of the Owens Valley -- The Utopians -- Executive Order 9066 -- The Selling of Richard Nixon -- Tomorrowland -- Ronald Reagan and the Legacy of Pat Brown -- La Causa -- Disaster at Platform A -- Six Days in Watts -- The Crisis of Growth -- Keeping the California Dream Alive."California has long reigned as the land of plenty, a place where the sun always shines and opportunity beckons. Even prior to its statehood in 1850, it captured the world's imagination. We remember the Gold Rush era for bearded prospectors lured by riches; we think of its early embrace of immigrant labor during the railroad boom as prologue to its diverse social fabric today. But what lies underneath the myth is far more complicated. Thanks to extensive research by Michael Hiltzik, one of our longstanding voices on California, GOLDEN STATE uncovers the unvarnished truth about the state we think we know well. From Spanish incursions into what became known as Alta California to the rise of Big Tech, the history of California is one of stark contradictions. In rich, previously overlooked detail, we see its earliest statesmen wreak havoc among native peoples while racing to draft their own constitution even ahead of statehood. We follow gold-hungry settlers who venture into the Sierra foothills only to leave with little, while a handful of their suppliers turn themselves into millionaire railroad magnates. We witness wars erupt in the name of water as Los Angeles booms and see early efforts to tame the vast landscape create a haven for fossil fuel extraction and environmental conservation alike. Hollywood politicians stoke fear in a centuries-long tradition of anti-Asian violence, and, remarkably, legal redlining and free higher education take root together. Golden State brings a fresh critical eye to the origins of the state against which the rest of the country measures itself. From its very start, Hiltzik shows, the story of the United States was written in California"-- - Subjects: California ;
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- Iron empires : robber barons, railroads, and the making of modern America / by Hiltzik, Michael A.,author.(CARDINAL)309213;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-409) and index.Part I: The Age of Scoundrels -- 1: Uncle Daniel and the Commodore -- 2: Chapters of Erie -- 3: Pierpont Morgan's Grand Tour -- 4: The King of Frauds -- 5: The Northern Pacific Panic -- 6: Jay Gould Returns -- 7: Year of Upheaval -- Part II: Morgan and Harriman -- 8: The Rise of Ned Harriman -- 9: The First Skirmish -- 10: A Community of Interests -- 11: Savior of the Union Pacific -- 12: The Reconstruction -- 13: "A Pig-Headed Affair -- 14: The Empire Builder -- 15: The Quest for the Burlington -- Part III: The Ghost Dance -- 16: Peacock Alley -- 17: Lions Guarding the Way -- 18: "A Good-Sized Panic" -- 19: Exhauston -- 20: The Trustbuster -- 21: "Malefactors of Great Wealth.""From Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans."--- Subjects: Railroads; Industrialists; Capitalists and financiers; Big business;
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- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex / by Hiltzik, Michael A.,author.(CARDINAL)309213;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-451) and index.A heroic time -- South Dakota boy -- "I'm going to be famous" -- Shims and sealing wax -- Oppie -- The deuton affair -- The cyclotron republic -- John Lawrence's mice -- Laureate -- Mr. Loomis -- "Ernest, are you ready?" -- The racetrack -- Oak Ridge -- The road to Trinity -- The postwar bonanza -- Oaths and loyalties -- The shadow of the Super -- Livermore -- The Oppenheimer affair -- The return of small science -- The "clean bomb" -- Element 103."The birth of Big Science can be traced to Berkeley, California, nearly nine decades ago, when a resourceful young scientist with a talent for physics and an even greater talent for promotion pondered his new invention and declared, 'I'm going to be famous!' Ernest Orlando Lawrence's cyclotron would revolutionize nuclear physics, but that was only the beginning of its impact. It would change our understanding of the basic building blocks of nature. It would help win World War II. Its influence would be felt in academia and international politics. It was the beginning of Big Science, "--Novelist.- Subjects: Biographies.; Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958.; Cyclotrons.; Physicists;
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- Colossus : Hoover Dam and the making of the American century / by Hiltzik, Michael A.(CARDINAL)309213;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: September 30, 1935: Roosevelt comes to the river -- 1: The sinful river -- The journey of death -- Born of the desert -- Rockwood's gamble -- The Lord's dame site -- 2: The road to black canyon -- Hoover steps in -- Battlegrounds -- Hurry-up Crowe -- The silver spike -- The big six -- Ragtown -- Rush job -- The Wobblies' last stand -- Ely's kingdom -- 3: The arch -- The jumbos -- Turning points -- The rising -- The pour -- Reckonings -- The crest -- Legacies.The author of "Dealers of Lightning" pens the definitive account of the epic construction of the Hoover Dam, one of the the 20th century's most consequential public works.- Subjects: Dams;
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