Big Dreams

Big Dreams
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 600
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ISBN-10 : 9781634509428
ISBN-13 : 1634509420
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Book Synopsis Big Dreams by : Bill Barich

Download or read book Big Dreams written by Bill Barich and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The land of opportunity, a golden Eden, the last frontier. What is this place that has given rise to countless metaphors but can still quicken the imagination? For Bill Barich, the question became a quest when he realized that home was no longer New York, where he had grown up, but California, to which he had been lured twenty years earlier. Now, in this account of his journey through California, he captures the true nature of the state behind the stereotypes. From the fogbound fishing towns of the North to the Mexican port of entry at San Ysidro, Barich describes an amazing diversity among people who have staked a claim to California’s promise. He introduces us to a Native American hairdresser and the head priest of a Sikh temple; we meet loggers, bikers, an aging lifeguard, and the prison warden whose job is to keep Charles Manson behind bars. He follows the traces of John Muir, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walt Disney, and Ronald Reagan, and weighs the impact their dreams have had on the rest of us. The result is a book that captures all the promise, heartache, grandeur, and incongruity of California and its unabashed Big Dreams.


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