Mexifornia A State of Becoming

Name: Mexifornia A State of Becoming
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ISBN: 9781893554733

ISBN-10: 1893554732

ISBN-13: 9781893554733

Edition: 2003

Authors: Victor Davis Hanson

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Part history, part political analysis, and part memoir, this is an intensely personal work by one of our most important writers. Hanson is perhaps known best for his military histories and especially his social commentary about America and its response to terror after September 11. But he is also a fifth-generation Californian who runs a family farm in the Central Valley and has written eloquent elegies for the decline of the small farm such as 'Fields Without Dreams' and 'The Land Was Everything'. Like these books, 'Mexifornia' is an intensely personal look at what has changed in California over the last quarter century. In this case, however, Hanson's focus is on how not only California,…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Encounter Books
Publication date: 7/1/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 150
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Victor Davis Hanson is the military historian who is a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno. He has written several popular books on classic warfare, including "The Other Greeks", "Who Killed Homer?", & "The Western Way of War". He lives in Selma, California.



Preface


Introduction



What Is So Different about Mexican Immigration?



The Universe of the Illegal Alien



The Mind of the Host



The Old Simplicity That Worked



The New Gods That Failed



The Remedy of Popular Culture?


Epilogue: Forks in the Road