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Title: Why the Golden State is golden, despite its flaws
Review: I picked this book up as natural history, and have indeed learned much about it, getting beyond a simple coast/valley/mountains/desert mindset into the different mountain regions, their formation and more.Of course, it's arguable that the way Fradkin breaks up the coast ranges into separate sections is more social history than natural history. But that's fine.Speaking of that, his phrase names for each section also reflect social history as much as natural history. And are insightful in both ways.Fradkin paints a good social history, not just of California as a whole but each of its regions individually, such as loggers in the northern coast, corporate farmers in the Central Valley, the paradoxes of Los Angeles, and so forth.I would recommend this book to native or semi-native Californios as a fresh look at their state, as well as to outsiders.
