James N. Gregory is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
"An important and readable book about one of the significant
episodes of the Great Depression. The story is told from multiple
points of view and illustrated with a number of striking
pictures--some of them not often seen. This book would be useful in
a number of different kinds of courses."--William H. Goetzmann, The
Univ. of Texas
"...a profoundly impressive book....American Exodus is a major
contribution to our understanding of regional, cultural, and
political history in the United States. It deserves the widest
possible readership."--Bill C. Malone, The Journal of Southern
History
"[A] stunning book....The impressive range of source material, from
government documents to graffiti to country music to cliometrics is
fashioned and reshaped to form a vivid yet subtle portrait of
generation of Americans on the move....A masterpiece of reflection,
imagination and research, a book that advances our historical
understanding, with a narrative skillfully and vividly told. In
sum, a testimony to what the historical profession and history
are
presumed to be about."--OAH Ray Allen Billington Prize
Committee
"We have had many other essays and books on the Okie migrants who
entered California in the 1930s, but no one has done so
comprehensive and masterful a job of telling their history as James
Gregory. He has uncovered a vast literature on these people,
including their own newspapers and poetry, and he has derived from
it a convincing portrait of both their strengths and weaknesses.
Best of all, he succeeds in giving them their due. They are, as he
reveals, a
major 20th-century American subculture, with roots in the Old
Southwest and a life that has endured beyond the thirties down to
our own time. The Okies must be reckoned with, and this book must
be read
to understand [them]."--Donald E. Worster, University of Kansas
"American Exodus takes us beyond the Dorothea Lange photographs and
the Hollywood stereotypes to the heart of that complex story of a
plain folk culture transplanted across a continent in the midst of
the great depression. In John Steinbeck, the Okie's found their
novelist; in Jim Gregory they have found their historian."--Dan T.
Carter, Emory University
"Clearly the best book that has been written about the
Okies."--Roger Daniels, University of Cincinnati
"[A] remarkable book....Gregory has a fine ear for music and a fine
eye for quotation, and combines these with vigorous social
analysis. American Exodus is a fine achievement."--Otis L. Graham,
Jr., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"It will fit in well with my 20th-century California class."--Kathy
Olmsted, University of California, Davis
"An important and readable book about one of the significant episodes of the Great Depression. The story is told from multiple points of view and illustrated with a number of striking pictures--some of them not often seen. This book would be useful in a number of different kinds of courses."--William H. Goetzmann, The Univ. of Texas "...a profoundly impressive book....American Exodus is a major contribution to our understanding of regional, cultural, and political history in the United States. It deserves the widest possible readership."--Bill C. Malone, The Journal of Southern History "[A] stunning book....The impressive range of source material, from government documents to graffiti to country music to cliometrics is fashioned and reshaped to form a vivid yet subtle portrait of generation of Americans on the move....A masterpiece of reflection, imagination and research, a book that advances our historical understanding, with a narrative skillfully and vividly told. In sum, a testimony to what the historical profession and history are presumed to be about."--OAH Ray Allen Billington Prize Committee "We have had many other essays and books on the Okie migrants who entered California in the 1930s, but no one has done so comprehensive and masterful a job of telling their history as James Gregory. He has uncovered a vast literature on these people, including their own newspapers and poetry, and he has derived from it a convincing portrait of both their strengths and weaknesses. Best of all, he succeeds in giving them their due. They are, as he reveals, a major 20th-century American subculture, with roots in the Old Southwest and a life that has endured beyond the thirties down to our own time. The Okies must be reckoned with, and this book must be read to understand [them]."--Donald E. Worster, University of Kansas "American Exodus takes us beyond the Dorothea Lange photographs and the Hollywood stereotypes to the heart of that complex story of a plain folk culture transplanted across a continent in the midst of the great depression. In John Steinbeck, the Okie's found their novelist; in Jim Gregory they have found their historian."--Dan T. Carter, Emory University "Clearly the best book that has been written about the Okies."--Roger Daniels, University of Cincinnati "[A] remarkable book....Gregory has a fine ear for music and a fine eye for quotation, and combines these with vigorous social analysis. American Exodus is a fine achievement."--Otis L. Graham, Jr., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "It will fit in well with my 20th-century California class."--Kathy Olmsted, University of California, Davis
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