By the end of the year , Jacques was promoted to permanent clerical assistant and given a forty - two dollar raise . He and his new wife , Connie ( who Barzaghi met on a Roger Corman film set ) , frequently socialized with Jerry .
California Dreaming: Boosterism, Memory, and Rural Suburbs in the Golden State analyzes the growth, promotion, and agricultural colonization that fed this dream during the early 1900s.
That is my fantasy life. They keep me dreaming." Paul Jasmin found some of the models through students at the college he teaches at in Pasadena and others are the children of friends of him who he has watched grow into adults.
California Dreaming reveals that these private entrepreneurs regarded the California citrus industry as their primary model of emulation.
Michelle Phillips evokes the heady atmosphere of creativity and meteoric success, and the destructive, drug-filled lifestyle that characterized the West Coast music scene in the sixties
An older couple, the Hales (based upon Charmian London's aunt and uncle), complete Billy and Saxon's induction into the good life. The Hales exude the spirit of true California culture. They live in a wood and stone bungalow, ...
[The author] takes a look at the LA pop music scene of the 60s through the lens of its greatest records, looking at the interconnections between seemingly disparate bands and performers"--Back cover.
It's Mama Cass as you've never known her, in this touching biography of the 1960s New York folk scene from French comics sensation Pénélope Bagieu (Exquisite Corpse).
In the debut middle grade novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Gayle Forman comes a poignant and powerful coming-of-age story that follows a young girl and her new friend as they learn about family, friendship, allyship, and ...
Baldwin records the stories of countless Angelenos, discovering people both upended and reborn: by disasters natural and economic, following gospels of wealth or self-help or personal destiny.
In this book, eight authors inquire into the moral questions that emerge from studying California.