Peter Richardson

This one goes to my two major preoccupations: Carey McWilliams and Ramparts magazine. In a recent New York Times book review , Victor Nav...

Bill Boyarsky's Truthdig article today on citizen journalists gave kudos to Carey McWilliams and Phil Kerby, editor of Frontier , which...

I flew through Marc Sandalow's Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi's Life, Times, and Rise to Power . It was built for speed; short paragra...

Just finished reading Bill Boyarsky's Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics . A man of huge appetites--for power, fo...

I may have died and gone to book heaven last weekend. I attended my first Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at UCLA. The experience worke...

The CSA conference came off this weekend and produced various pleasures--some predictable, others less so. I met some email and telephone c...

One of Carey McWilliams's biggest achievements at The Nation was turning a journal of opinion into a forum for investigative journalism....

It's happening. Mark your calendars. The 18th annual conference of the California Studies Association is coming to Berkeley, April 11-...

OK, one last post on the Stegnorama in Point Reyes. It received even more attention than I thought. The New York Times ran a piece on it ...

Another great day at the Stegner conference. Met many interesting people and discovered that Margaretta Mitchell took the cover photograph ...