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One title that you might like is American Prophet,

The Life and Work of Carrie McWilliams by Peter Richardson,

with a foreword by Mike Davis.

Historian Kevin Starr described Carrie McWilliams as the finest nonfiction writer on California

ever, and the state's most astute political observer.

But as Peter Richardson argues, McWilliams was also one of the nation's most versatile

and productive public intellectuals of his time.

Richardson's absorbing and elegant biography traces McWilliam's extraordinary life and career.

Drawing from a wide range of sources, it explores his childhood on a Colorado cattle ranch,

his early literary journalism in Los Angeles, his remarkable legal and political activism,

his stint in state government, the explosion of first-rate books between 1939 and 1950,

and his editorial leadership at the Nation magazine. Along the way, it also documents McWilliams'

influence on a wide range of key figures,

including Cesar Chavez, Hunter S. Thompson, Mike Davis, screenwriter Robert Town,

playwright Luis Valdez, and historian Patricia Limerick.

American Prophet, The Life and Work of Carrie McWilliams by Peter Richardson, with a foreword by

Mike Davis.

Out now from University of California Press.

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