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Geoffrey Dunn is a fourth-generation resident of Santa Cruz County. He has been an athlete and/or coach in Santa Cruz County for a half-century and is widely recognized as the authority on Santa Cruz County sports history. A history columnist for the popular magazine Santa Cruz Style, Dunn is the show more former captain of his high school baseball team and continues to be active in a wide array of regional sports. show less

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Works by Geoffrey Dunn

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Orpheus in the Underworld [libretto] — Translator, some editions — 11 copies

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Wonderful, heartfelt stories full of interesting characters that piece together bits of Santa Cruz history.
 
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ninam0 | 1 other review | Jun 22, 2022 |
An outstanding book by Geoffrey Dunn. He is a personal friend and went to high school with him. He shares these stories from the history of Santa Cruz. He gives a personal touch to these stories.
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terrygraap | 1 other review | Apr 28, 2015 |
This book was fascinating, but thank god it has a substantial bibliography and an index, because there are so many editing and typographical errors that without those appendices, I might have been inclined to marginalize it entirely.

Want examples? Check the hardcover edition, page 105, which proffers "doublejeopardy" as a legal term. doublejeopardy, one word. And on page 256, there is a typo regarding Jim Barnett that is obvious and clunky and not at all suspicious, just careless. There are others (wrung instead of rung) but I forbear.

I can't necessarily fault Mr. Dunn for this. It's probably just curmudgeonly of me, because in the olden days, careful copy-editing was a respected job, and one that I might have worked at, except for these is modern times and we don't need no copy editors on account of we have Spellcheck.

Okay. Aside from all that, I consider this book to be thoughtful, detailed, uncomfortably insightful regarding the state of our nation, and well worth reading. It really ought to have had a less strident title, though.
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Magatha | 1 other review | May 10, 2012 |
Read the title read the book. I found too much detail, but as I am not American, the detail was superfluous. I never liked the thought of her as running mate for McCain, and was relieved when they lost the presidency.
 
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seeker42 | 1 other review | Nov 26, 2011 |

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