Dear CaliforniaDispatches from a land of extremes, by writers and movie stars, natives and visitors, activists and pioneers, and more. California has always been, literally, a place to write home about. Renowned figures and iconoclasts; politicians, actors, and artists; the world famous and the not so muchall have contributed their voices to the patchwork of the state. With this book, cultural historian and California scholar David Kipen reveals this long storied