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“Right Out of California” & “The Money Makers” Book Discussions | SF

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Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 7:00 pm | Cost: FREE
City Lights Books | 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA

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About Right Out of California:

In a major reassessment of modern conservatism, noted historian Kathryn S. Olmsted reexamines the explosive labor disputes in the agricultural fields of Depression-era California, the cauldron that inspired a generation of artists and writers and that triggered the intervention of FDR’s New Deal. Right Out of California tells how this brief moment of upheaval terrified business leaders into rethinking their relationship to American politics—a narrative that pits a ruthless generation of growers against a passionate cast of reformers, writers, and revolutionaries.

A riveting history in its own right, Right Out of California is  a vital chapter in the nation’s political transformation whose echoes are still felt today.

About The Money Makers:

An absorbing narrative history showing how FDR and his advisors pulled the levers of monetary policy to save the domestic economy and propel the United Sates to unprecedented prosperity and superpower status.

The Money Makers restores the Roosevelt dollar to its central place in the understanding of FDR, the New Deal, and the economic history of twentieth-century America.

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Cost: FREE
Categories: Literature
Address: 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA