{"product_id":"california-dreams-the-making-and-remaking-of-the-university-of-california-miriam-pawel-hardcover","title":"California Dreams: The Making and Remaking of the University of California -- Miriam Pawel, Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Essential reading.\"- KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A must read.\"-KAI BIRD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In a time of terminal cynicism, Pawel gives us hope.\"-JERRY BROWN\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePulitzer Prize winner Miriam Pawel's epic history of one of the world's elite public universities, its sweeping social impact, and hopeful lessons about endurance in troubled times.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDistinguished by its founding mission as an engine of upward mobility, the University of California-a constitutionally independent public trust-is a great American experiment that has persevered through fraught battles over access, funding, and leadership. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe University has been at the nexus of nearly every public policy debate and social movement since the Civil War, from women's rights to student protests, from academic freedom to affirmative action, shaping policies that reverberate throughout the United States. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCalifornia Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e narrates UC's rise and resilience through the lens of those whose lives it has transformed-in particular, five pioneering graduates whose diverse paths underscore why the University remains, in the words of Berkeley graduate Joan Didion, \"California's best idea of itself.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt a time of staggering inequality and uncertainty, as higher education faces unprecedented threats, that role has never been more crucial. Drawing on extensive research in ten archives and dozens of interviews, \u003ci\u003eCalifornia Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e weaves together the linked history of the school and state in all its drama, significance, and humanity; the result is a magisterial narrative of both a remarkable public institution of higher education, and also California itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Miriam Pawel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639732739\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiriam Pawel \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Browns of California\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the California Book Award Gold Medal; \u003ci\u003eThe Crusades of Cesar Chavez\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ea National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; and \u003ci\u003eThe Union of Their Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e. A Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and reporter, she spent twenty-five years at \u003ci\u003eNewsday \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e. For this book, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Fellowship and was named a fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. She lives in Southern California.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miriam Pawel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67490646425828,"sku":"9781639732739","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781639732739.jpg?v=1791360459","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/california-dreams-the-making-and-remaking-of-the-university-of-california-miriam-pawel-hardcover","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}