Product Description: Guide Dogs and Guns: America s First Blind Marksman Fires Back You watched me rack my AK-47 in Bowling for Columbine . You saw me square off with The Early Show's Bryant Gumble. You looked on as I entered the ring to spar with MSNBC's Tucker Carlson...read more

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In 1949, lawyer, historian, and journalist Carey McWilliams stepped back to assess the state of California at the end of its first one hundred years—its history, population, politics, agriculture, and social concerns. As he examined the reasons for the prodigious growth and productivity that have characterized California since the Gold Rush, he praised the vitality of the new citizens who had come from all over the world to populate the state in a very short time. But he also made clear how brutally the new Californians dealt with "the Indian problem," the water problem, and the need for migrant labor to facilitate California's massive and highly profitable agricultural industry. As we look back now on 150 years of statehood, it is particularly useful to place the events of the past fifty years in the context of McWilliams's assessment in California: The Great Exception. Lewis Lapham has written a new foreword for this edition. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Carey McWilliam's North From Mexico, first published in 1949, is a classic survey of Chicano history that continues to have a major influence on studies of the Mexican-American experience today. Widely used in college courses on Chicano and Southwestern history and culture, the volume provides a comprehensive general history of the Mexican experience in the United States, beginning with the early aboriginal inhabitants...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The history of Spanish-speaking people in the Southwest United States, tracing the evolution of Anglo-Hispanic relations in America as a case study in ethnic acculturation

Product Description: Book by McWilliams, Carey