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The Beholden State: California’s Lost Promise and How to Recapture It
Full title: | The Beholden State: California’s Lost Promise and How to Recapture It |
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ISBN: | 9781442223431 |
ISBN 10: | 144222343X |
Authors: | Anderson, Brian C. |
Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Edition: | 2 |
Num. pages: | 344 |
Binding: | Hardcover |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2013 |
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Synopsis
While there is plenty of literature on California’s history, topography, and attractions, The Beholden State: California's Lost Promise and How to Recapture It is the first book examining in rigorous detail how a place seen just a generation ago as the dynamic engine of the American future could, through bad policy ideas, find itself with among the highest unemployment rates and poorest educational outcomes in the country