Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - "From the early explorations of Gaspar de Portola to the present-day aspirations of Ronald Reagan, this book tells the history of California politics" - includes stories of the Townsend Plan, of Upton Sinclair's schemes, of governors Jimmy Rolph, C. C. Young, Hiram Johnson and Earl Warren - of parties ranging from the Black Panthers to the John Birchers. Photographs, index. 296 pp.

Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Franklin Folsom, executive secretary to the League of American Writers for five of its seven years of often controversial activity, brings to life a time when writers became aware of the threats of fascism, and recalls vigorous efforts of many great U.S. writers to rescue from European concentration camps their anti-Nazi colleagues. Founded during the tense, pre-war period of the 1930s, the League sought to promote intellectual and political freedom worldwide. With photos of League members, bibliography and index. 376 pgs. ISBN: 0-87081-3323.