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Mark Arax talked about economic and geographic landscape of the San Joaquin Valley. Mr. Arax shared the challenges of writing about the land where he grew up, its engineered development, and…

Mark Arax talked about his book, West of the West: Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State, in which he chronicles four years of traveling throughout California to exp…

Authors, Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman talked about their book, "The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire". The authors recount the story of the Boswell …