Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future.
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Published | 1998-12-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Nick Gillespie |
| Reviewee | n/a | Peter Schrag |
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Peter Schrag, New York: The New Press, 344 pages, $25.00
In 1993, my wife and I moved from Buffalo, New York, to Los Angeles - a trip that cannot be measured in miles alone. As envious - and horrified - friends and relatives were quick to point out, we were not simply changing an address or time zone. We were going to California, the place that has singularly fired the nation's imagination for decades both as a golden land of hope, growth, and limitless opportunity and as a dark locus of fear, decadence, and broken dreams - a dichotomy perhaps even more descriptive of Los...
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