| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden. By Douglas Cazaux Sackman. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xvi, 386 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-520-23886-9.)

Seldom, if ever, have oranges, their commercial growers, their mistreated pickers, and their delighted consumers been "unpacked" quite in this fashion. Douglas Cazaux Sackman is at pains to uncover all the deceptions, brutalities, and self-serving delusions that justify the citrus boomers' attempt to "commodify" nature in this faux Eden. The author lays rough hands upon the claims of the "Orange Empire's" producers and propagandists. Citations to Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, and Karl Marx appear as the keys to the kingdom. "Karl Marx saw all of this," the author affirms (p. 120). Foucault exposed the coercions of "bio-power" (p. 155). A particularly opaque assertion by Habermas is given a herald (p. 278).

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