What They're Saying about California Crackup and its Authors
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“California Crackup is brilliant. It cuts through the familiar tangle of diagnoses and quick-fix solutions to provide a comprehensive and persuasive analysis of California's dysfunctional governmental system. Paul and Mathews have coolly laid out a complicated story, made it readable, sometimes even comedic. It is the best discussion of the issue I've seen in over three decades.” Peter Schrag, author of Paradise Lost: California’s Experience, America’s Future and California: America’s High Stakes Experiment. |
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“It is the best thing I have read on the subject, period, and it should be required reading for every voter in this state. The book is a towering achievement: systematic, learned, and yet lucid, accessible, and highly readable.” Russell Hancock, president and chief executive officer of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network. |
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“Mark Paul and Joe Mathews have produced an indispensable guide to California’s crisis of governance – and they have done so with humor, scholarship, fairness, and storytelling verve. Every Californian should read this book.” Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars |
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“I know of no other work that combines so succinctly and enjoyably a historical summary of California’s existing problems with such a sweeping and provocative program of reform.” Ethan Rarick, Director, Robert T. Matsui Center for Politics and Public Service, UC Berkeley, and author of California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown. |
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“Joe Mathews has done an artful, fascinating, and convincing job of connecting the California of today's Schwarzenegger era to the long history that made his rise possible.” James Fallows, national correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly |
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“Mark Paul... has a talent for presenting California Big Think stuff in an easily accessible and always readable way...[offering] clear and creative insights on the subject of California’s collapse.” Jerry Roberts & Phil Trounstine, Calbuzz |
