From West to East: California and the making of the American Mind.

National Review | April 20, 1998| | Copyright

From West to East: California and the Making of the American Mind, by Stephen Schwartz (Free Press, 542 pp., $30)

Mr. Johnson is an editorial writer for the Orange County Register.

PLATO'S Republic opens with Socrates going "down to the Piraeus," the seaport of Athens, where commerce dilutes parochialism and allows expansive speculation -- a place especially conducive to the dreaming and dissecting of utopias.

California -- or the "California Republic," as its bear flag proclaims it -- likewise sits at ocean's edge, and has imbibed through the centuries ...

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