| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.2

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Book Review

Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative. By Emily K. Abel. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. xviii + 176 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $24.95, paper.)

Few historians remember Charles Dwight Willard. Those who do may recall him as one of many regional promoters who "boosted" Southern California in the late-nineteenth century, primarily through his association with the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the promotional magazine Land of Sunshine. Fewer still know that Willard's promotional literature was accompanied by a very different record—decades of correspondence with his Chicago family detailing his twenty-eight-year struggle with tuberculosis. The chasm between his sunny public boosterism and this grim private narrative serves as the focus of Emily K. Abel's book. Through his letters, she illuminates the history of disease and medicine, the history of Southern California, and the historical experience of living with illness.

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