Wow! eBook
The Beholden State: California's Lost Promise and How to Recapture It
Author(s): Brian C. Anderson
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
- Publication Date: 6 Jun. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 344 pages
- ISBN-10: 144222343X
- ISBN-13: 9781442223431
Book Description
The list of contributors includes:
Steven Malanga, William Voegeli, Joel Kotkin, Wendell Cox, Arthur B. Laffer, Steven Greenhut, Victor Davis Hanson, Heather Mac Donald, John Buntin, Ben Boychuk, Tom Gray, Andrew Klavan, Troy Senik, Larry Sand, Michael Anton, and Guy Sorman.
While there is plenty of literature on California’s history, topography, and attractions, The Beholden State: California’s Lost Promise and How to Recapture It is the first book examining in rigorous detail how a place seen just a generation ago as the dynamic engine of the American future could, through bad policy ideas, find itself with among the highest unemployment rates and poorest educational outcomes in the country. The book is as thoroughly analytical as it is pragmatically proscriptive, complete with policy solutions mapping the way forward for a struggling state.
Editorial Reviews
Review
The editors and writers of New York’s sprightly City Journal have gone west, young man, and have returned with a gold nugget of political wisdom. How California became a basket case, and why it needn’t remain one–these are the twin veins worked in this sobering and inspiring volume. No one concerned with the future of California and the nation can afford to ignore The Beholden State.
