Rising in the West: The True Story of an "Okie" Fa: The Great Depression Through the Reagan Years

by Dan Morgan

Book Overview

A look at what happened to the millions of people who headed west during the Great Depression to find jobs in California shows how one family rose from the life of itinerant fruit pickers into the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394574532
• ISBN13: 9780394574530
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 532 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Anyone living in California should read this book

This is a fascinating book on the migration of people from the Midwestern Dustbowl during the Great Depression and what happened to them once they got to California. It is extremely well written. It makes reading the newspaper in California much more interesting because many of these people have gone on to shape current events