Listen to full audiobooks for free on :#adhttps://amzn.to/499CVn8Title: The Rest of the West (2009)Author: Mark Arax, Scott Martelle, Jim Newton, Deanne StillmanNarrator: Steven J. RossFormat: UnabridgedLength: 59 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 08-24-09Publisher: Los Angeles TimesGenres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & PanelsSummary:Steven J. Ross is professor of history and chairman of the history department at USC. He has written several books in the areas of working-class history, social history and film history. Ross is the author of Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics.Mark Arax is an award-winning author and journalist. He is a contributing writer at Los Angeles magazine and a former senior writer at the Los Angeles Times. Arax's recent title is West of the West: Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State. Arax teaches nonfiction writing at Claremont McKenna College.Scott Martelle is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer. His book Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West explores the uprising of coal miners against political and economic corruption in the early-20th century American West.Jim Newton is the editor of the Los Angeles Times' Editorial pages. He shared in the Pulitzer prizes awarded to the Los Angeles Times for coverage of the 1992 riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. He is the author of Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made.Deanne Stillman's best-selling book Twentynine Palms was called "a strange and brilliant story by an important American writer" by Hunter S. Thompson. Stillman's most recent book, Mustang, examines the wild horse in the culture, history and popular imagination of the American West. Stillman lives in Los Angeles.Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

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