California Dreams
The Making and Remaking of the University of California
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California Dreams
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Miriam Pawel
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"Essential reading."— KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR
"A must read."—KAI BIRD
"In a time of terminal cynicism, Pawel gives us hope."—JERRY BROWN
Pulitzer Prize winner Miriam Pawel’s epic history of one of the world’s elite public universities, its sweeping social impact, and hopeful lessons about endurance in troubled times.
Distinguished by its founding mission as an engine of upward mobility, the University of California—a constitutionally independent public trust—is a great American experiment that has persevered through fraught battles over access, funding, and leadership.
The University has been at the nexus of nearly every public policy debate and social movement since the Civil War, from women’s rights to student protests, from academic freedom to affirmative action, shaping policies that reverberate throughout the United States.
California Dreams narrates UC’s rise and resilience through the lens of those whose lives it has transformed—in particular, five pioneering graduates whose diverse paths underscore why the University remains, in the words of Berkeley graduate Joan Didion, “California’s best idea of itself.”
At a time of staggering inequality and uncertainty, as higher education faces unprecedented threats, that role has never been more crucial. Drawing on extensive research in ten archives and dozens of interviews, California Dreams weaves together the linked history of the school and state in all its drama, significance, and humanity; the result is a magisterial narrative of both a remarkable public institution of higher education, and also California itself.©2026 Miriam Pawel (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Tremendous… The UCs shine on and Pawel celebrates the triumphs of the institution that writer Joan Didion ’56 famously called the state’s ‘highest, most articulate idea of itself.’ Anyone curious as to how that idea took shape will benefit from reading Pawel’s outstanding account.
Forget gods, monsters and military battles. California has its own material for an epic tale: the state’s public university system. But if chancellors, state budgets and admissions stats don’t sound like Homeric stuff, meet the state’s historian bard, Miriam Pawel... Overall Pawel’s modus operandi is canny. Each character study is suspenseful, setting up tantalizing possibilities for how a promising young writer or a farmer’s son might one day be changed by, and change, a sprawling institution...Pawel’s eye for detail is shrewd and delightful.
The roiling history of a 'multiversity.' Drawing on extensive archival sources, memoirs, and interviews, Pawel recounts the birth, rise, and ongoing transformations of the 'ten campuses, six health centers, three national laboratories, and hundreds of programs and research centers' that comprise the University of California...Recent assaults on higher education make California’s story newly relevant. A timely, sweeping examination of a major institution of higher education.
Pawel’s expansive book traces the University of California’s growth through its political battles and struggles over access, while bringing to life graduates whose achievements reflect the system’s extraordinary breadth. It’s a history of a university system that helped shape the state, but also the world. University systems all over the planet try to imitate the UC’s success. (Erik Olsen)
[A] superb history...What makes this book exceptional is the way Pawel captures human dimensions that afford a fuller panorama of the many ways the state and the UC are linked... California Dreams tells a story of grand ambition and foresight unfolding during war, economic boom and bust, student unrest, political upheaval, tax revolt and demographic change... Pawel presents a sweeping story of an institution that sits at the heart of California, defining the state’s ethos and identity more than any other. California Dreams makes an immense contribution to our understanding of the Golden State
Terrific...Pawel’s book is really something intimate: an examination of the fraught, familial relationship between our state and its world-class university system....California Dreams is often quite moving, as it shows how the university shaped the ideas, ambitions and people of California.
What better time to examine the University of California system and its role in education, research, employment and leadership in the state and around the world?
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