Abraham Lowenthal

Abraham Lowenthal was born and raised in Massachusetts, and went to Harvard “and stayed for every degree I could think of.” After a stint in the Dominican Republic – when “Lyndon Johnson in his wisdom landed the marines and gave me a topic for my PhD thesis” – Lowenthal moved to California. “It was for a very simple reason,” the USC professor and author of Global California explained. “I fell in love with a wonderful woman.” Lowenthal tells us more about himself below.

Q. What was the last habit you …

April 26, 2010

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–Reviewed by Saskia Vogel

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Steve Westly

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Steve Westly is a Managing Partner of The Westly Group, a venture capital firm that invests primarily in clean technology companies. Prior to founding The Westly Group, he served as …

Roadside America

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John Margolies’ Roadside America captures fading landmarks to American automobile culture. Margolies, appetite whetted on road trips with parents who never pulled over, began crisscrossing the country in the mid-1970s. …

D.J. Waldie

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Golden Dreams

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Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 (Americans and the California Dream)

by Kevin Starr

-Reviewed by Byron Perry

California in the 1950s is collectively remembered as a collage of tailfins, …

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