California Dreams
The Making and Remaking of the University of California
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California Dreams
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Miriam Pawel
"Essential reading."— KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR
"A must read."—KAI BIRD
"In a time of terminal cynicism, Pawel gives us hope."—JERRY BROWN
Pulitzer Prize winner Miriam Pawel’s epic history of one of the world’s elite public universities, its sweeping social impact, and hopeful lessons about endurance in troubled times.
Distinguished by its founding mission as an engine of upward mobility, the University of California—a constitutionally independent public trust—is a great American experiment that has persevered through fraught battles over access, funding, and leadership.
The University has been at the nexus of nearly every public policy debate and social movement since the Civil War, from women’s rights to student protests, from academic freedom to affirmative action, shaping policies that reverberate throughout the United States.
California Dreams narrates UC’s rise and resilience through the lens of those whose lives it has transformed—in particular, five pioneering graduates whose diverse paths underscore why the University remains, in the words of Berkeley graduate Joan Didion, “California’s best idea of itself.”
At a time of staggering inequality and uncertainty, as higher education faces unprecedented threats, that role has never been more crucial. Drawing on extensive research in ten archives and dozens of interviews, California Dreams weaves together the linked history of the school and state in all its drama, significance, and humanity; the result is a magisterial narrative of both a remarkable public institution of higher education, and also California itself.©2026 Miriam Pawel (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The roiling history of a 'multiversity.' Drawing on extensive archival sources, memoirs, and interviews, Pawel recounts the birth, rise, and ongoing transformations of the 'ten campuses, six health centers, three national laboratories, and hundreds of programs and research centers' that comprise the University of California...Recent assaults on higher education make California’s story newly relevant. A timely, sweeping examination of a major institution of higher education.
Pulitzer winner Pawel offers a sweeping and uplifting history of the University of California... Tracking the university’s subsequent expansion into 'a more than $50-billion-a-year behemoth,' the author spotlights the founding of landmark departments like Chicano and Asian American Studies and details political challenges weathered by the university... The result is an optimistic reflection on how a progressive institution has elevated its local population for more than a century
[A] superb history...What makes this book exceptional is the way Pawel captures human dimensions that afford a fuller panorama of the many ways the state and the UC are linked... California Dreams tells a story of grand ambition and foresight unfolding during war, economic boom and bust, student unrest, political upheaval, tax revolt and demographic change... Pawel presents a sweeping story of an institution that sits at the heart of California, defining the state’s ethos and identity more than any other. California Dreams makes an immense contribution to our understanding of the Golden State
A powerful and inspiring history of one of America's greatest public institutions. Miriam Pawel shows how the University of California helped shape not only a state, but generations of lives. Essential reading for anyone who believes in the transformative power of education.
In California Dreams, Miriam Pawel tells the unbelievable story of the University of California and how it overcame parochialism and prejudice to transform itself–decade by decade–into a multi-ethnic engine of intellectual advancement and economic opportunity. In a time of terminal cynicism, Pawel gives us hope.
In California Dreams, her impressively researched, gracefully written history of the University of California, Miriam Pawel reminds us of the indispensable contributions American public universities have made and, one hopes, will continue to make to the health, vitality, and resilience of this nation and its peoples.
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