Joe Mathews (1)
Auteur van California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It
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Joe Mathews is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times.
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The People's Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger And the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy (2006) 11 exemplaren
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It's about admiring people who get really rich really quickly. It's about hey, it so isn't like the rest of the US. Come ooonn!
And yet.....
I had an idea California was something else. Not least because, as I was reading something Manny wrote here recently which referred to the idea that gaol in France isn't so bad as the protagonist has expected; I was remembering a friend who has just come out of Californian gaol. A privatised concern in the middle of the desert, prisoners shackled together as they shuffle along. This was the view that confronted his children when they came to visit.
So when I came upon JEH Smith's piece lately, I was relieved to discover that California isn't actually Mama Cass and Silicon Valley and red wine and film stars living in houses that are too big. Not only, at any rate. It is this:
It is a very moving piece. Read it! It took me to goodreads, no surprise there, and looking around found this book. This took me to Richard's review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/163450537 which gives links to a whole series in The Economist on the subject. What an unmitigated disaster. I had no idea. The more one reads about the US the harder it is to believe it can extricate itself from the mire. And yet there is still that hope, isn't there?
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