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This book is part history, part political analysis and part memoir. It is an intensely personal book about what has changed in California over the last quarter century.

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DESPITE ITS STATUE OF LIBERTY, recitations of Emma Lazarus's poetry, and melting-pot imagery, America has always struggled with issues of immigration-mostly when it was a matter of the poor, dispossessed non-Anglos or non-Protestants coming in by the millions.
 

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