The King of California

by Arax, Mark; Wartzman, Rick

• ISBN13: 9781586480288
• ISBN10: 1586480286
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Public Affairs

Summary

A rich, colorful history of California centering on the untold story of America's biggest farmer, J.G. Boswell, who controls more than $1 billion worth of water rights and real estate in the heart of the state. The nonfiction version of Chinatown or East of Eden.

Author Biography

Mark Arax is an award-winning reporter for the Los Angeles Times, and Rick Wartzman is the paper's business editor. Arax, who lives in Fresno, is the author of the critically acclaimed In My Father's Name, about his search to find his father's killers. Wartzman, who lives in Los Angeles, was previously with The Wall Street Journal, where for fifteen years he served in a variety of posts, including White House correspondent and founding editor of the paper's weekly California section

Table of Contents

The Boswell Family Tree	ix
Winter
Winter	3	(20)
The Cotton Kingdom	23	(9)
The Little Sahara	32	(14)
The Lake of the Tules	46	(20)
The Little Kingdom of Kings	66	(23)
Spring
Spring	89	(24)
White Gold, Black Faces	113	(24)
La Mordida	137	(21)
``Goon-Squad Tactics''	158	(19)
River of Empire	177	(35)
Blue Blood	212	(23)
Summer
Summer	235	(21)
Boot Hill	256	(30)
The Stud	286	(30)
Truce	316	(33)
Lobbyists, Politicians, Payola	349	(12)
The View from the Forty-sixth Floor	361	(27)
Death in the Homeland Canal	388	(23)
Autumn
Autumn	411	(20)
Notes	431	(90)
Bibliography	521	(12)
Permissions	533	(2)
Acknowledgments	535	(4)
Index	539