Margaret Leslie Davis

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1. Kevin Starr

   Author of Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915, Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s, Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950

2. Marc Reisner

   Author of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate

3. Robert A. Caro

   Author of The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

4. Mike Davis

   Author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

5. Jules Everett Tygiel

   Author of The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties

6. John McPhee

   Author of Coming into the Country, Annals of the Former World

7. Dennis McDougal

   Author of Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty

8. Ethan Rarick

   Author of California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown

9. John Wesley Powell

   Author of The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons

10. Mark Arax

    Author of The King Of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire

11. Josiah Royce

    Author of California: A Study of American Character : From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco

12. W. W. Robinson

    Author of Land in California: The Story of Mission Lands, Ranchos, Squatters, Mining Claims, Railroad Grants, Land Scrip, Homesteads (Chronicles of California)

13. Philip L. Fradkin

    Author of A river no more : the Colorado River and the West

14. Donald Worster

    Author of A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell

15. H. W. Brands

    Author of The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream

16. Sam Hall Kaplan

    Author of L A Lost and Found: An Architectural History of Los Angeles

17. Norman Mailer

    Author of On a Fire on the Moon

18. Reyner Banham

    Author of Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies

19. J.S. Holliday

    Author of The World Rushed In

20. Jill Jonnes

    Author of Eiffel's Tower: And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count, Conquering Gotham : a Gilded Age epic : the construction of Penn Station and its tunnels