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Article Excerpt
BERKELEY: A CITY IN HISTORY
By Charles Wollenberg (Berkeley: University of California, 2008, 240 pp., $18.95)
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BERKELEY BOHEMIA: ARTISTS AND VISIONARIES OF THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
By Ed Herny, Shelley Rideout, and Katie Wadell (Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith, 2008, 208 pp., $24.99 cloth)
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IN THE DAYS before book browsing involved an Internet connection, regional histories were generally consigned to bookstores' remotest reaches. Two new volumes on Berkeley deserve greater prominence given the city's outsize influence on the twenty-first century's cultural, political, and scientific landscapes.
In Berkeley: A City in History, Charles Wollenberg recounts the city's physical, economic, and cultural developments. From a tortuous property rights...
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