Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future

摘要: For much of this century California was the envy continent, not just for what nature had made but civil society created: speedy freeways, country's best public school system, works that desert bloom. Not any more California's and social services are crumbling, education has plunged from top to bottom nationwide measures. How could American dream go so wrong fast? No quick synopsis can do justice detailed analysis Schrag presents in volume. The moral story is contempt government creates governments contemptible - a rest country should study since, metaphorically speaking, "California famously place where us heading"