Peter Richardson

I have a piece on AlterNet today about the reception of Markos Moulitsas's American Taliban . This isn't a straightforward comment...

I just finished reading Joe Mathews and Mark Paul's California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It . I'...

I just heard from Nancy McWilliams, Carey McWilliams's daughter-in-law. She was kind enough to send me two of Carey's books ( Ill F...

I just finished reading Bob Blauner's Resisting McCarthyism: To Sign or Not to Sign California's Loyalty Oath . It's a solid an...

I was browsing at Down Home Music in El Cerrito and came upon an album called High Desert by Mars Arizona . I've been listening to it m...

I just finished reading Novella Carpenter's Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer , which is now out in paperback . I don't th...

I somehow missed this review of A Bomb in Every Issue . It appeared in California History and was written by W.J. Rorabaugh, who wrote Ber...

I just came across this piece on Warren Hinckle ... sounds like a fun conversation. I wonder a bit about the comments on A Bomb in Every Is...

Iris Dornfeld McWilliams , Carey's widow and the author of two young adult novels, died on July 7. She was 97. Steve Cooper, who interv...

Gustavo Arellano appeared on Marketplace yesterday and offered a choice summer reading recommendation: Carey McWilliams's Southern Cali...