What's Going On: California and the Vietnam Era.(Book Review)

From: California History | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Heineman, Kenneth J. | Copyright information

WHAT'S GOING ON: CALIFORNIA AND THE VIETNAM ERA

Edited by Marcia A. Eymann and Charles Wollenberg (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004, 209 PP., $49.95 cloth, $29.95 paper)

Envisioned as a companion piece to an exhibition mounted by the Oakland Museum of California, What's Going On? California and the Vietnam Era, is an engaging and informative work. Supplemented with 127 black-and-white photographs, this volume depicts the political and cultural d...

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