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Article Excerpt
GOVERNOR JAMES ROLPH AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION IN CALIFORNIA
By James Worthen (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., 2006, 228 pp., illustrated, $35.00, trade paper)
IT IS ONE OF THE GREAT IRONIES of California history that its relentlessly upbeat politician lames Rolph, best known as "Sunny Jim" for his charming disposition, was also one of the state's greatest tragedies--or so James Worthen ably recounts in his new and much-needed biography of the long-serving mayor of San Francisco and single-term governor of the Golden State.
Born in San Francisco to immigrant parents in 1869, James Rolph had...
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