| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown. By Ethan Rarick. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 501 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-520-23627-0.)

Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown was one of the most important figures of twentieth-century politics, and Ethan Rarick has done ample justice to this dominating figure. Rarick sees Brown, nicknamed Pat because of a World War I–era rendition of Patrick Henry's speech "Give me liberty or give me death," not only as a single political figure but also as the epitome of California's new place in American life as the pacesetter. Thus the title, California Rising. According to Rarick, Brown ushered in the first great surge of California political and governmental activism, the hesitation of that surge in the face of the Watts riots and the rebellion on the University of California–Berkeley campus, and finally the backlash, signified by Brown's difficult second term as governor and his defeat by Ronald Reagan.

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