| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.3

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Book Review

California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown. By Ethan Rarick. (Berkeley: University of California Press. 601 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95; £18.95.)

In this biography of two-term California governor, Edmund "Pat" Brown, Ethan Rarick offers his readers an engrossing history of a political life. Born on 21 April 1905, Brown grew up in San Francisco. With boundless energy and adroit networking skills, he began his career as a local lawyer with grand political ambitions. These were brought up short when, at 23, Brown made a poorly executed bid at securing a seat in the state assembly. Slaughtered at the polls the young Brown sought more prudent strategies, moving from Republican to Democrat to district attorney to attorney general and finally into the governor's office in 1959. There Brown oversaw the expansion of the state's college and university system, the growth of the interstate freeways, the routing of bureaucratic corruption, as well as dark moments such as the 1965 Watts uprising. Rarick's research lends life to his subject, especially when treating Brown's enthusiasm for proposing new measures and successfully having the legislature enact them. The Donohoe Higher Education Act, the Fair Employment Practices Act, and the Burns-Porter Act represent Brown's great gubernatorial successes.

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