Fool's Paradise: A Carey McWilliams Reader

by Carey McWilliams, Dean Stewart, Jeannine Gendar (Editors), Wilson Carey McWilliams (Foreword), Gray A. Brechin (Introduction)

Presents the best writings of one of America's most incisive and influential thinkers on subjects from rainmakers to agribusiness, party politics to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. "I never lost a feeling for the importance of idealism in keeping alive the belief that injustices can be corrected and inequalities lessened." So wrote McWilliams, historian, journalist, activist, and iconoclast who chronicled the history of California and the West for a period of nearly sixty years. With an introduction by Gray Brechin and a forward by McWilliams' son, Wilson Carey McWilliams.