{"product_id":"the-golden-fortress-californias-border-war-on-dust-bowl-refugees-hardcover","title":"The Golden Fortress: California's Border War on Dust Bowl Refugees - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBill Lascher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn February 1936, Los Angeles police officers drove hundreds of miles to California's state borders with one mission: turn back anyone deemed too poor to enter. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMyths of the Golden State's abundance enticed thousands of Americans uprooted by the Depression, but those who created those myths saw only invading criminal \"hordes\" that they believed just one man could stop: James \"Two-Gun\" Davis, Los Angeles's authoritarian police chief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Golden Fortress\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of Davis's audacious deployment of hand-picked armed police slamming California's door on America's Dust Bowl refugees and Depression-displaced migrants. It depicts the sometimes deadly consequences of law enforcement politicized and weaponized against the poor, even in remote places like Modoc County, where a sheriff's opposition to the blockade inflamed an already smoldering feud between an itinerant newsman and a publisher obsessed with her California heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavis, blessed by his city's ruling business class and fueled by his own wild claims of communist conspiracies undermining America, deployed his \"Foreign Legion\" to California's state lines, threatening democracy even as the nation's cities and rural communities juggled the burdens of economic recovery, migrant aid, and public safety.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Golden Fortress\u003c\/i\u003e underscores the decades-long fight over who can access the American Dream.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill Lascher\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eEve of a Hundred Midnights\u003c\/i\u003e, a 2017 Oregon Book Awards finalist. Lascher wrote the \u003ci\u003eAmerican History Tellers \u003c\/i\u003epodcast's Great Depression series. His journalism appears in outlets like \u003ci\u003eAtlas Obscura\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFortune, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003ePortland Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBoom: A Journal of California.\u003c\/i\u003e He previously edited the \u003ci\u003eVentura County Reporter\u003c\/i\u003e and was a staff writer at the \u003ci\u003ePacific Coast Business Times\u003c\/i\u003e. A graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Lascher has a history degree from Oberlin and a master's degree in specialized journalism from the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism and Communication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 09, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53756066857293,"sku":"9781641606042","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/bzZRNkpCTFRIcGlEQVhMMTdvaGpHdz09.webp?v=1776722012","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/the-golden-fortress-californias-border-war-on-dust-bowl-refugees-hardcover","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}