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Orange County A Personal History

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ISBN-10: 1416540040

ISBN-13: 9781416540045

Edition: 2008

Authors: Gustavo Arellano

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The story began in 1918, when Gustavo Arellano's great-grandfather and grandfather arrived in the United States, only to be met with flying potatoes. They ran, and hid, and then went to work in Orange County's citrus groves, where, eventually, thousands of fellow Mexican villagers joined them. Gustavo was born sixty years later, the son of a tomato canner who dropped out of school in the ninth grade and an illegal immigrant who snuck into this country in the trunk of a Chevy. Meanwhile, Orange County changed radically, from a bucolic paradise of orange groves to the land where good Republicans go to die, American Christianity blossoms, and way too many bad television shows are green-lit.…    
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Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 9/16/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi is a reality television star who broke into the spotlight on MTV's reality show Jersey Shore in December 2009. Her popularity on Jersey Shore helped make it one of the highest rated series in MTV history, with more than 5.7 million viewers tuning in for the finale.Gustavo Arellano's �Ask a Mexican! column has a circulation of more than two million in thirty-eight markets (and counting). He has received the President's Award from the Los Angeles Press Club, an Impact Award from the National Hispanic Media Coalition, and a 2008 Latino Spirit Award from the California State legislature. Arellano has appeared on the Today show, Nightline, NPR's Talk of the Nation, and…    

This is how we do it in the OC (don't call it that)
Flying potatoes, anchor babies, and kidnapped teen brides : the Mirandas go north
"Our climate is faultless" : constructing America's perpetual Eden
His fake green card, her tomato packing
Where all the good idiot Republicans go to die
The Philadelphia story
Gimme that OC religion
Genesis and the Stetson
The beaner-bashing capital of America
My Mexican awakening
The "real" real Orange County reel, or : about those stupid television shows, why Orange County is "hip," and what's really real and what's somewhat real - for real!
Becoming "the Mexican"
Insert concluding Orange cliche here