A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
by Kevin Starr
Recommended by Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in About California, American History, and Most Recommended Books.
California has always been our Shangrila?the promised land of countless pilgrims in search of the American Dream. Now the Golden State?s premier historian, Kevin Starr, distills the entire sweep of California?s history into one splendid volume. From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, this is the story of a place at once quintessentially ...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in About California, American History, and Most Recommended Books.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
“If anyone is at all interested in a book about California, what makes California unique and special, and the history of it, the political history of it and all the little details, this is a good book to have.”
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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