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	A Flier In Oil 70% OFF SALE. Meticulously researched and engagingly written and illustrated with dozens of historical photographs, A Flier in Oil tells for the first time the story of Adolph Spreckels oil company and the larger role Spreckels played in the dramatic growth of the California petroleum industry. It tells, as well, the story of one of America's most notable families-a family distinguished as much by its remarkable contributions to the growth of development of the Golden State as by the remarkable degree to which modern historians have neglected these contributions. Paperback. REGULAR PRICE $29.95. PRICE: $8.98
	A Rage for Justice HALF PRICE SALE. This political biography of Phillip Burton (1926-1983) is the riveting story of one of the most brilliant, driven, and productive legislators of his or indeed any era of American politics. A ruthless and unabashed progressive, Burton terrified his opponents, ran over his friends, forged improbable coalitions, and from 1964 to 1983 became one of the most influential Representatives in the House. He also acquired more raw power than almost any left-liberal politician ever had. Moving from grassroots campaigns to epic battles in the California state capital, and finally to the very pinnacle of power on Capitol Hill, John Jacobs's inside account of Burton's life shows how politics really works. He demonstrates the exercise of power in the hands of a superb strategist and shows an unheralded master going about his life's work during the glory years of American liberalism. Hardcover. REGULAR PRICE $29.95 PRICE: $14.97
	A San Francisco Scandal 70% OFF SALE. The California of George Gordon: Forty-niner, Pioneer, and builder of South Park in San Francisco. Hardcover. REGULAR PRICE $21.95 PRICE: $6.60
	African American Odyssey HALF PRICE SALE. T. McCants Stewart was a prominent African-American in his day, a lawyer during the Reconstruction who later became a minister, politician, and racial activist and was regarded by his peers as one of the most significant black leaders of his generation. This book illuminates the professional career and private lives of Stewart and his descendants over three generations, providing an epic account of an African-American family in America. Hardcover. REGULAR PRICE $29.95 PRICE: $14.97
	Americas HALF OFF SALE. The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean. Updated edition. Americas is the most authoritative history available of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. From Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, from Cuba to Trinidad and Tobago. The book examines the historical, demographic, political, social cultural religious, and economic trends in the region. REGULAR PRICE $25.95 PRICE: $12.97
	Blows Like A Horn HALF OFF SALE.Mirroring the music of the era, the book breaks new ground in showing how jazz, much more than an ambient soundtrack, shaped the very structures of Beat art and social life. Jazz, an American hybrid--shot through with an earned-in-the-woodshed, African American style of spontaneous intelligence--also gave Beat poetry its velocity and charisma. Hardcover. REGULAR PRICE $29.95 PRICE: $14.97
	Courthouses of California Published jointly by the California Historical Society and Heyday Books, Courthouses of California: An Illustrated History is a richly illustrated, carefully researched, and elegantly designed photo documentary book chronicling 150 years of judicial architecture in California. The book includes a preface by Chief Justice of California Ronald M. George, and a collection of essays by distinguished members of the legal, historical and architectural professions. At the heart of the book are hundreds of magnificent photographs by such renowned photographers as Dorothea Lange, Carleton Watkins, and Eadweard Muybridge. Half of the net proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to CHS. About the Author Ray McDevitt is an attorney with a San Francisco based law firm. He has represented the United States Environmental Protection Agency and California cities, counties, and other local government agencies in lawsuits in both state and federal courts. He is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he teaches a course in local government law. PRICE: $55.00
	Dear People: Remembering Jones On November 18, 1978, over nine hundred expatriate Americans died in Jonestown, Guyana, along with a U.S. congressman and members of the press. The deaths of the members of Peoples Temple stunned the nation, and to this day a single aerial photograph taken at the time remains indelibly etched in our minds, a horrifying pile of corpses lying in a clearing in the South American jungle. We have forgotten how the people of Jonestown lived: that they once walked among us as neighbors and friends. They were a community that embraced racial equality and social justice and that won the praise and support of some of our most notable leaders. Dear People challenges perceived notions of the Jonestown tragedy, presenting letters, personal histories, reports, newspaper articles, photographs, and other documents, many published here for the first time from the Peoples Temple Collection of the California Historical Society. Dear People is a companion to The People?s Temple, a play directed by Leigh Fondakowski. Paperback. PRICE: $16.95
	Declaration of Interdependence "You're sure to be provoked and enlightened by this bold view from the other side of the Atlantic." Robert B. Reich In this shrewd and eloquent dissection of American politics and policies, Will Hutton offers powerful new insight into our new and troubling mores. Great societies, this book holds, are marked by essential core values: the social contract that enhances its citizens' lives; an honest and enlightened economy; a vital public realm; and a recognition that the world is an interdependent place, one best governed under international law. With the triumph of conservatism in America, each of these values has withered. Rampant materialism, corporate corruption, the failure of government regulation, an unquestioning faith in American exceptionalism, and a conviction that Americans must go it alone are all in the saddle. We are not going in the right direction. To turn us around to secure health services and decent work for all Americans, to build faith in the economy, to close the gap between rich and poor, to restore, in short, the American dream America needs to reclaim these values. It could not do better in that task than to renew its historic philosophical partnership with today's Europe, which has chosen a better compass. PRICE: $15.95

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