Anti-California: Report From Our First Parafascist State

296 Pages·1971·34.93 MB·English

by  Kenneth Lamott

PIARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY
31111002573291
REPORT
w>
MMon
$6.95
Something is happening to America's Golden
State.
in La Jolla, San Diego and Golden Gate Park, in
Marin County and in Watts, in Palo Altoand
Oakland,—the symptoms have become ugly and
obvious
State leaders make a mockery ofthe demo-
cratic process. Open v/arfare is waged against
the dissidentyouth ofthe state. One-third ofthe
population earns a living manufacturing bombs,
missiles, napalm, and rockets. Theeducational
system is rentby political pressure and internal
dissension. Blatant racism continues in a pattern
which is centuries old. Acute alcoholism, drug
addiction, mental illness, divorce and suicide scar
private lives at afrequencywhich is sometimes
twicethe national average.
Is fascism a serious possibility? Accord—ing to
Kenneth Lamott, it is not only possible itis —
here. What is worse, its presencein California
foryears a reliable barometer of—America's
political and socialtemperament clearly and
undeniably predictsthefuture ofevery state in
the union.
Anfi-California is a lucid and eloquent analysis
of conditions in this glorified and misunderstood
state, a frightening reporton its public corruption
and private sickness. In itthe voices of Ronald
Reagan and BobbySeale, S. I. Hayakawa and
Mario Sovio, Max Rafferty and Dr. William—
McGill minglewith those of the forgotten the
street people, Son Quentin inmates, residents of
San Francisco's Tenderloin, rebel priests and the
quietlytroubled who seek out every kind of
therapy imaginable. Political and apathetic,
violent and despairing, bitter and confused, they
demand attention.
Civic Center
979. 4 Lamott
Lamott^ Kenneth Church.
1923-
Anti-California report
:
from our first parafascii
state
DATE DUE
MAY 9. 1 19^^W
UUL 2 2
1
I

I
BOOKS BY KENNETH LAMOTT
The Stockade
The White Sand of Shirahama
Chronicles of San Quentin
Who Killed Mister Crittenden?
The Bastille Day Parade
The Moneymakers: The Great Big New Rich in America
Anti-California: Report from Our First Parafascist State
Anti-
California
.
' Report from Our First Parafascist State