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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 California Book Award (Californiana category)
A brilliant California history, in word and image, from an award-winning historian and a documentary photographer.
Trade Review"White tells his stories with economy, but nevertheless with considerable nuance, subtlety, wry humor, and in fierce confrontation with the unvarnished truth. As its title puns,
California Exposures is a powerfully muckraking work, in the great California tradition of Upton Sinclair, Carey McWilliams, and Mike Davis. If one has time for only one book on the history of California, this one stakes a strong claim to being it." -- Wade Graham - Santa Barbara Independent
"In this ingenious, entertaining book, Richard White, the preeminent chronicler of the American West, alters our understanding of how the Golden State came to be." -- Geoffrey C. Ward, author of A First-Class Temperament
"Every page of this book displays history as surprising, confounding, unsettling, and—more often than the cynical might expect—spirit lifting." -- Patty Limerick, author of The Legacy of Conquest
"A master class in how to interpret California landscapes past and present." -- William Cronon, author of Nature’s Metropolis
"Richard White’s brilliance is his ability to excavate history from myth. With wit, grace, and wisdom, he has written an inimitable, indispensable history." -- Miriam Pawel, author of The Browns of California
"Richard White’s California history is brilliant and dark." -- Anne Hyde, author of Empires, Nations, and Families
"A work of art that brings an evocative intimacy and lucidity to California’s past." -- Jack E. Davis, author of The Gulf
"A deeply original work. No one who reads this book will see the state’s landscape in the same way again." -- Claudio Saunt, author of Unworthy Republic
"A highly original, important rumination on myth and history, images and words, memories and meaning. This is a beautiful book." -- William Deverell, Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
"Masterful explorations of the Golden State by a leading historian of the American West." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
