Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 (Americans and the California Dream)
by Kevin Starr
California in the 1950s is collectively remembered as a collage of tailfins, swimming pools, and modernist architecture, a time when any hardworking sap could own a single-family home in the suburbs….
Carlos Moreno, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, is a native Angeleno. A judge for the last 23 years, Moreno has lived his entire life in Los Angeles, and, instead of living near the court in San Francisco, keeps his residence in his home city. Read more about him below.
Henry Weinstein, a founding faculty member of the UC Irvine School of Law, spent 30 years as a journalist at the Los Angeles Times. But his career began long before that. “I actually started in journalism in elementary school,” Weinstein said, writing sports for the monthly newspaper. He went on covering sports until law school, when he switched to politics and legal affairs. “If you were at Berkeley in the ’60s,” he said, “it was probably hard to think you were going to spend your life just devoted entirely to sports.” Read more about Weinstein below.
by Yusef Komunyakaa
If only he could touch her,
Her name like an old wish
In the stopped weather of salt
On a snail. He longs to be
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Carlos Moreno has held many titles — city attorney; municipal, superior, and district court judge; and today, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. But foremost, he is an Angeleno.
As University of California, Irvine law professor Henry Weinstein said to the packed audience at the California Endowment, Moreno grew up near downtown Los Angeles, the son of Mexican immigrants….
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