History & Biography
Roses from the Ashes: Breakup and Rebirth in Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Athletics
Glenn T. Seaborg with Ray Colvig. Foreward by Clark Kerr, 422 pp, Book # 394X, $25
Roses from the Ashes is the story behind the rise and fall of college sports on the Pacific Coast. It was an era of colorful characters--Pappy Waldorf, Red Sanders, Johnny O and the McKeever boys--and clashing values. Glenn Seaborg had an inside view of it all. Here's the true story of the scandals that tore the Pacific Coast Conference apart--and the birth of the Pac-10--the Conference of Champions.
Speaking Freely: A Scholar's Memoir of Experience in the University of California
Angus E. Taylor, 227 pages, Book # 3931, $21.95
Over a long and distinguished career at the University of California, Angus Ellis Taylor taught mathematics at UCLA, was vice president for academic affairs under three presidents, and served as chancellor of the university's Santa Cruz campus. A brilliant scholar and teacher, Taylor was also a gifted administrator. His story, told warmly and well here, involves some of the most difficult and tumultuous years in the life of a great university.
Golden Gate Metropolis: Perspectives on Bay Area History
Charles Wollenberg, 380pp, Book # 301X, $16.95
"Here at last in a single volume is the interwoven story of the San Francisco Bay region . . . authoritative, readable, compact, the first wide-angle portrait of a vast and vigorous urban substate."
--Richard Reinhardt, The California Historical Society
