Review: California: An American History, by John Mack Faragher

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Book Review| May 01 2023 Review: California: An American History, by John Mack Faragher California: An American History. By John Mack Faragher. (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2022. 480 pp.) William Issel William Issel San Francisco State University, Emeritus Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2023) 92 (2): 308–309. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.2.308 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation William Issel; Review: California: An American History, by John Mack Faragher. Pacific Historical Review 1 May 2023; 92 (2): 308–309. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.2.308 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search Margaret Sanger timed her 1939 California speaking tour to coincide with the opening of a Birth Control Federation of America exhibition at the Treasure Island World’s Fair. Her lecture to the San Francisco League of Women Voters was well attended, but fair-goers never got a chance to visit the family planning exhibition. It was taken down because Roman Catholic men and women strenuously objected to what they regarded as an unacceptable cultural event. Sanger complained about having been cancelled by her Catholic opposition during an interview with Sue Barry, a columnist for the Communist Party newspaper People’s World, but Los Angeles Catholic activist Anna E. McCaughey celebrated the removal of the exhibition. It was another victory in the campaign to make California public policy conform to Catholic principles. Episodes of such complexity appear throughout California: An American History, an outstanding new history of the Golden State. Previously unsung men and... You do not currently have access to this content.