Coast of Dreams California on the Edge, 1990-2003

A new volume in the author's multivolume study of California focuses on the period from 1990 to 2003, drawing on a variety of personal impressions, news stories, anecdotes, facts, and analyses to examine a period of intense upheaval and turmoil in the Golden State, from the rise and fall of Silicon Valley to the Northridge earthquake to the recall election of Arnold Schwarzenegger.