Summary
Two books on life in California
Authors Peter Schrag and Stephen Schwartz believe that California has ceased to be a truly radical and livable place. In their respective books, Schrag and Schwartz discuss the concept of the California dream and how it mirrors the experience of America in general.See the full content of this document
Extract
California dreaming.
In 1993, my wife and I moved from Buffalo, New York, to Los Angeles - a trip that cannot be measured in miles alone. As envious - and horrified - friends and relatives were quick to point out, we were not simply changing an address or time zone. We were going to California, the place that has singularly fired the nation's imagination for decades both as a golden land of hope, growth, and limitless opportunity and as a dark locus of fear, decadence, and broken dreams - a dichotomy perhaps even more descriptive of Los Angeles than the state as a whole.
For every person who regaled us with Beach Boys-inspired reveries of an Endless Summer, someone else held up the Manson family as the true apotheosis of the California lifest...See the full content of this document
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