Bernstein Books

I only wish that I had had the benefit of Dr. Emmanuel Bernstein's book, THE SECRET REVOLUTION available to my educators when I was growing up. I was one of those students who suffered at the hands of "terrorist teachers". While I now have a successful career, it has taken me years to overcome some of the things that so-called educators taught me: primarily, I would never amount to anything because I couldn't concentrate. I can only imagine what I would be today if I had been allowed to just be who I was, a free-thinking little child, curious about everything and one who was terrified of taking tests. Bravo, Dr. Bernstein! I hope this book liberates those who remain afraid that they are failures because a useless system tells them so. Read this book and pass it on!

If you have read the Harry Potter books, you know how Dumbledore's pensieve draws a spectator into his memories, allowing an outsider to live in and learn from Dumbledore's own past experiences. Dr. Bernstein resembles Dumbledore in many ways, and this book is like his pensieve.

By drawing us into his clear, eloquent memories, Dr. Bernstein introduces us to unique individuals who have crossed his path (a remarkable path at that, through a broad educational landscape). These individuals themselves make the case for Education as Liberation - not Schooling as Oppression. We join them in their struggles and triumphs, and we root for their successes as if they were our friends.

We cannot escape joining Dr. Bernstein in his conclusions as we gallop through these memories - conclusions with implications for our own families as well as for our nation. In order to liberate an individual, we must remove the shackles of testing, drilling, and standardizing imposed by misguided educational policies. Through the sometimes bitter, sometimes transcendant lives of other, we see without doubt that too many ideologues are strangling the souls of our youth, stamping out the light of true learning, and crippling our future.

Resist. If you read this book, and meet the people of Dr. Bernstein's memories, they might inspire you to change the world.

Frank Jennings, an innovative educator who was the Editor-At-Large of the Saturday Review of Literature and Educational Director of the New World Foundation, had this to say at the dedication of an innnovative school: "Any teacher or administrator who does not know well Alfred North Whitehead's book: Aims of Education and Other Essays, should to declared incompetent." The same can now be said about Dr. Emmanuel Bernstein's new book: THE SECRET REVOLUTION: A Psychologist's Adventures in Education. Anyone who has experienced schooling will identify with the current language of "terrorism" supported by numerous real life examples of both the "best and the Worst" selected from a lifetime of participation in schools and a professional practice aimed at helping those who have been damaged in this system to overcome their school-induced handicaps. Not only teachers and administrators, but school board members, politcians and parents must experience this book.

The Secret Revolution paints the real picture of traditional education, one of terror for many students. Bernstein's specifics ring true in my 50 years of experience with conventional schools and what has been learned from alternatives to regular schools. While hard-hitting, his treatment is even-handed which I find fresh and honest. A powerful readable book about what now needs to happen. It absolutely deserves wide consideration by policy makers, educators and the public.

This is a great book for history and religion buffs, especially considering the recent discovery in Jerusalem of a Bone Box that may have belonged to James, the brother of Jesus Christ and the main character of this novel. It is told through the eyes of an enamored disciple and blends intrigue with historical fact in relating the story of the religious sect in Kumran, a sect responsible for writing the Dead Sea Scrolls. This book is captivating, readable, and very interesting. I give it five stars.

The main character of this novel is James, the brother of Jesus. This is hot because his bone box (ossuary) has recently been found in Jerusalem.

Here is what is written on the back cover and on the book's web site:

Jesus Christ had a brother, James, as told in the New Testament and by Jesus' contemporary, Josephus.
A purported ossuary of James was recently discovered.
The inscription on the ossuary reads, "James, son of Joseph, the brother of Jesus".
Regardless of the authenticity of the ossuary, the controversy sorrounding it
led many to learn of James' brotherhood to Jesus,
his immense role in early Christianity and his likely connection to the Dead Sea Scrolls -
all of which were intentionally obscured by the Catholic Church.

Through the eyes of an enamored female disciple, This novel,
The Star of Apocalypse, uncovers the obscured and momentous story of
James [Jacob], the brother of Jesus [Yeshua].

Excerpt from the The Star of Apocalyse:

On our way back to the Dead Sea
we camped near the cave where
I had seen the image of Yeshua
when we had first left Jerusalem.
It was the same time of year and
I walked below the same dome of starry skies,
hoping to see the same vision.
A figure appeared, and I recognized Jacob.
'Here it was that I saw your brother's image a year ago.'
'You will not see it again in this world.'
'How can you say that?'
'Let me tell you a story...'

The Synopsis:

Short:
From obscure beginnings and endings in Roman-occupied Jerusalem emerges a throng of religious zealots living in Qumran by the Dead Sea. Conflict is inevitable: with the Romans, but more significantly, within the Jewish sects, and between the Judeo-early Chrisian leadership. James, the brother of Jesus led one way, and Paul the apostle, led the other.

A fantastic read! Not only is the book historically intriguing in presenting and extending the latest compelling contraversial theories, but also an addictively smooth novel.

I see that the author's synopsis is missing from this site, which is a shame. So i will paste it.

The Time is fall, A.D. 62 at Qumran, in the Roman province of Judea.
A Jewish woman laments the death of James, the righteous leader of her sect. She is dismayed that the sect's apocalyptic hopes dependent on James' success have not materialized. Will her soul now be lost forever?

The anonymous narrator reverts to tell James' story. It starts with his appointment as successor by his brother, Jesus at about A.D. 36 and ends with James' execution in A.D. 62.

During the period of James' ministry, his doctrines and authority are continually challenged by Paul, a former persecutor of the sect. Throughout the story, the narrator warns James about Paul's activities. She follows these activities and travels in Paul's footsteps to Tarsus, Antioch and Ephesus. James is not very alarmed about Paul. Thus James' tepid actions aimed at containing Paul do not succeed. Paul becomes uncontrollable in his anti-Jewish actions. James only realizes the reality of Paul's threat at his own execution. After being stoned, James murmurs "How odd of God to choose Saul".

The narrator details her ascetic life with the Qumran community in the Judean desert. How she falls in love with James but realizes that he is unavailable, being a holy man sworn to celibacy. And how in her frustration and self search she marries Eleazar son of Dinai, a real life Robin Hood figure of the first century. She travels around Judea and Asia Minor and describes the scenic, social and religious geography of these areas. She recounts the meteoric rise and untimely death of the last Jewish king of Judea, Agrippa I, who captivates the love and hopes of the people. They believe that Agrippa is the nation's savior.

The narrator befriends Agrppa's daughter Berenice, the skeptic character of this novel, who proffers logical explanations to some of the momentous paranormal events in human history. Berenice also explains the reasons for the deadly hostility between the brothers of Jesus and the priestly brothers, the sons of Hanan, in relation to the literal texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls. She proves that Hanan son of Hanan is the "Wicked Priest" of the Scrolls and that the two families were engaged in a blood feud with no holds barred, beginning with Jesus' crucifixion.

Enjoy!

I read this in one weekend and it's 300 and something pages. Hearing stories of people's spiritual journeys has always fascinated me.

I loved the way he approaches drawing near to God. He puts that first and let's God take him where He may. Unlike most religion where people blindly follow what they're told and basque in the glow of their pride.

I like the part where he goes to a Pentecostal church and gets told that unless he speaks in tongues he's not a full on Christian.

Also when he goes to Israel for his Christian deprogramming and ends up visiting right when the 6 day war starts.

He made the Orthodox churh sound so good that I must confess I went to visit one on Sunday. I had no idea that the Orthodox Christian church didn't teach burning in hell forever. That was news to me and I wanted to hear more.

God's love really pours out through this book.

There's something different about Jewish Christians and the way they approach God.

Very inspiring and thought provoking book.

I won't write a long review, as others have already done so. I just wanted to emphasize what a wonderful introduction to Orthodoxy this book is, especially for those of us coming from Protestant backgrounds. Many of our particularly Protestant questions about liturgy and Church history and tradition are answered very thoroughly and with great sensitivity and understanding.
I have read many good and some not-so-good books about Orthodoxy in the last couple of years, but this one is outstanding.

Surprised By Christ: My Journey from Judaism to Orthodox Christianity succeeds on several levels. The first is as an engaging and fascinating conversion story of a first-generation religious Jewish boy (Conservative Jew) in Queens, New York, raised as he puts it, "in the shadow of the Holocaust", whose "road to Damascus" encounter of Christ after reading the New Testament under his covers with his flashlight, compels him to become a founding member of "Jews For Jesus", a participant in the sixties "Jesus Movement" in California, a pastor in what became the Evangelical Orthodox Church, a convert to Orthodox Christianity, seminarian and eventually an ordained Orthodox priest. Interspersed throughout is a well-written narrative of the many phases of his spiritual experience, study and discovery as he journies from independent Protestantism (he is thankful and generous about his Protestant experience) to re-discovery of his Jewish roots in the Eastern Orthodox Church. If you want to understand how the first Jewish converts to the Christian faith saw Christ as the prophesied Messiah of Israel through the Hebrew Scriptures and rabbinic sources, this is the book! You will also get an excellent overview of Orthodox Christian theology and praxis in the book. There is a fascinating chapter that shows a historical connection between the "Nazarene" Jewish Christians of Jerusalem, who fled the destruction of the Temple (A.D. 70) to Aleppo in modern-day Syria, with the Antiochian Orthodox Church. This is an excellent and entertaining primer on Orthodoxy - and its differences from western Christianity - for the Jew, Gentile or spiritual seeker alike.

If you are interested in hearing an interview with the author about the book, the link follows:

http://audio.ancientfaith.com/illuminedheart/ih_bernstein_pc.mp3

"Surprised By Christ," by Fr. James Bernstein, is best described as a theological autobiography. It is the long-awaited companion volume to the best-selling "Becoming Orthodox: A Journey to the Ancient Christian Faith," by Peter E. Gillquist, which tells the story of approximately 2,000 Evangelicals who, in the 1970s and 80s, went on a search for the New Testament Church and found themselves being received into the Orthodox Christian Church 1987.

While most of that group was led by former staff members of Campus Crusade for Christ, Fr. James, then known as Arnold, joined forces with them after being raised as a devout Jew in Queens, and becoming a Christian while secretly reading a Jehovah's Witness translation of the New Testament under his bedcovers at night. He became active in InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in New York before being selected by Moishe Rosen to help start Jews for Jesus in San Francisco.

While in the Bay area, Arnold (now Fr. James) became involved with the Christian World Liberation Front in Berkeley, which was led by Jack Sparks, a former Crusade staffer, and he became part of their quest for the New Testament Church while participating in evangelistic street theater.

I like to say that "Surprised by Christ" was written in three speeds, or rhythms. The autobiographical portions of this book, his childhood in Queens, his days in college, his year in Israel during the time of the "Six Day War," and in street ministry, are all a fascinating quick read, and are memorable reflections of those turbulent times.

Then Fr. James slows this journey down to reflect on his theological struggles, and the insights he gains as he compares his Jewish upbringing with his exposure to Evangelical Christianity, and his eventual discovery of more ancient Orthodox Christian teachings.

These alternating sections are written in Fr. James' own voice, and he is meticulous in spelling out the theological issues that brought him along the journey.

The third "speed" is even slower, because Fr. James supports his theological understandings with numerous, and sometimes lengthy, quotes from the Ancient Church Fathers, as well as the Scriptures. Some of these are in a very different language from Fr. James' own voice, but they are essential in supporting points he wishes to make.

I read this book over the course of about six weeks, because I needed to put it down and think about it many times. But I'm quite certain I'll pick it up and read it again very soon, because there is something refreshing in the way Fr. James approaches the Orthodox faith.

Most convert books are written by former Protestants and are very heady. This one, even though it is theological, comes from the heart. I know this to be true, because Fr. James is the one who brought me into the Orthodox Christian faith, after a two-and-a-half year inquiry, and he's been my priest for most of the past decade (I spent a few years in another parish).

This book is true to the man I've come to know and love. I recommend this book to Orthodox Christians who want to broaden their understanding of their faith, to individuals who are exploring the Orthodox faith, regardless of background, and to Evangelicals and Roman Catholics who would like to compare the differences between their understanding of the Christian faith with someone from a solidly Jewish background who now feels most at home in the Orthodox Christian Church.

The biography of Brooks is well-written, but the true value of the book lies in the coaching asides that litter the book. Speeches and quotes from Coach himself make it an extraordinary motivational tool.

I really enjoyed this in-depth biography of the late Herb Brooks. The book provided information into the psychology and methods of a mysterious, complex human being who was clearly a master motivator and obsessive in his preparation. it provided wonderful insight into a true coaching legend. I recommend it to any hockey fan.

Mr. Bernstein did an incredible job of not only showing the talent and skill that Mr. Brooks had building the 1980 Olympic team and taking them to victory but he also was able to show the real Herb Brooks. I say this for in the mid-80s I worked at a hardware store near where Herb lived and on many occasions he'd stop in and pick up supplies or get keys cut and every time he stopped in he'd always be open to chat or sign autographs for as many who would hold out a slip of paper and a pen. A few years after that I was leaving a video store and he asked me how I liked a car I had recently purchased. All of these fond memories came back to me as I read this book, but this time it was almost surreal to think that someone who did so much and accomplished so many things would care enough to do these things for a person working at a counter or walking out of a store. This book put all of these things together and truly celebrated a person who meant so much to so many people of so many backgrounds for so many different reasons. It was a pleasure to read and I would recommend it to anyone, if you're a hockey fan or not, you will love learning more about a man who was a true hero.

Not only the sheet music for many of the most popular numbers from his Broadway shows, but a synopsis of each play and other interesting facts about his life and work are included.

I've just spent an amazing day reading these songs cover to cover. Immense fun for anyone. Witty, clever and moving, it is truly sad Bernstein never got his rightful place in the pantheon of great composers. It is a seat well deserved.

(...)This collection gives us a remarkable cross-section of his work; from On The Town to West Side Story through to rareties from Peter Pan and even Madwoman of Central Park West. For a "Lenny" freak, and for a serious musical theatre lover, this collection is an imperative. Unfortunately, it is currently out of print. Bad move, Boosey. If you are a musical theatre lover, and you can get a copy of this...do so, now!!!

I admit I am a huge fan of Ellen's work and buy several copies of anything with her name on it so that I can hand it out to people who come to me wanting to learn more abotu the convergence of Judaism and nature. Ellen has a way of merging text and modernity that makes her writing accessible yet engaging. I use her material on my adventure trips, as a source of inspiration for my own writing God in the Wilderness: Rediscovering the Spirituality of the Great Outdoors with the Adventure Rabbiand, as I said before, as a gift for other who wish to learn more about this burgeoning field.
-Rabbi Jamie Korngold, the Adventure Rabbi, author God in the Wilderness: Rediscovering the Spirituality of the Great Outdoors with the Adventure Rabbi

As someone who identifies as a cultural Jew, rather than a "religious one" I was delighted to find Ecology & the Jewish Spirit.

I have never found Judaism to be accessible or compelling; the closes thing to religion for me has been "nature." (Professionally, I've pursued a career as a landscape architect) Now for the first time--through this book--I recognize that Judaism may have something to offer me spiritually. A reverance for nature is basic to Jewish thought and is so integral to a Jewish way of life that most of us neglect to see that its there--I never did.

Ecology & the Jewish Spirit illuminates various strands of ecological thought within the Jewish tradition and makes it accessible for a wide audience.

The book is divided into 3 sections: Sacred Place, Sacred Time and Sacred Community. Through this framework, the holiness of nature becomes apparant. Bernstein juxtaposes analytical readings with personal narrative pieces to give the reader a wholistic experience of how nature fits into Jewish tradition--the effect is that you get a sense of how rabbis and Jews thought about the human place in nature hundreds of years ago, and you also get a sense about what that could mean for you today.

I recommend this book highly for anyone, Jewish or not, who is interested in pursuing an ecologically oriented and spiritual life.

I also recommend the book as a present for bar and bat mitzvah kids who are seeking answers for the environmental crisis.

I received this book as a Wish List gift (thank you, dear reader!) and it arrived the day before a local PBS camera crew came to our hobby farm to film a segment on me as a Hasidic gardener. The idea of a religious Jew actually working the land (in Minnesota yet!) was so unusual to a certain writer in Duluth (himself Jewish), that he felt it merited a TV story!

I suspect that "Ecology and the Jewish Spirit" will sell very well for the same reason: most people -- Jewish or not -- simply do not associate the Jewish religion with ecology. The idea seems so novel, they just have to know more...

As Ellen Bernstein points out in her introduction to this excellent anthology, the lack of specific references to "environment" and "nature" in traditional Jewish sources does not mean that Jews have no connection to nature. "Rather," she writes, "Judaism's ecological message emerges when we observe what is sacred in Judaism. How are we to treat what is holy? And what is humanity's place amid the holiness? The Jewish understanding that the earth belongs to God attests to the fact that the earth and everything in it is holy, and this concept of holiness, kedushah, is the beginning of a unique Jewish environmental ethic." (p. 13)

This book explores that ethic through 37 essays by Jews from all kinds of backgrounds, organized into three sections: Sacred Place, Sacred Time, and Sacred Community. The styles are as varied as their authors, ranging from personal anecdotes about relating to Judaism and nature, to an excellent explanation of the ethics behind the agricultural laws in the Torah, to a liturgy for celebrating the Jewish Festival of the Trees (Tu B'Shevat). Page 205 has a list of the special brochahs (Hebrew blessings) to be said upon seeing various works of nature. Did you know that Judasim has a separate blessing for seeing a rainbow, the ocean, or trees in bloom? Sadly, these particular brochahs have fallen out of use among urbanized Jews. Perhaps this book will help revive awareness of them among modern Jews.

Of special interest to me was the essay "Practical Kabbalah: A Family History" by Charles Fenyesi, whose ancestors came from Eastern Europe, where his family had owned and worked 30 acres of land. (So much for the old stereotype of Hasidic Jews being urban.) He tells how his ancestors "religiously" gathered organic debris of all kinds, to "toss into the sort of heap that we moderns call a compost pile." This would eventually be carted off to their fields and vegetable garden.

"Nothing should go to waste!" was their motto -- not out of stinginess, but from an understanding that everything has a place and should be treated with respect, not wasted. Life was a "productive loop," not a vicious cycle. This ecological awareness, Fenyesi explains, came from within the Hasidic-kabbalistic worldview of traditional Judaism. His family didn't talk about "ecology" in modern words, but they lived it as an integral part of daily life in the stetl (Jewish village). Religion encompassed all things, including what should be thrown on the compost pile.

Another story I liked, wihch was a bit amusing to me at first, was Eileen Abrams' account of how she grew a plot of barley in the tiny yard in front of her Philadelphia rowhouse. A friend of hers wanted some barley stalks and heads for a craft project. OK, why not? Eileen quickly went from land lender to barley steward. She had never seen barley grow before (hard for me to imagine, living as I do in the Midwest!). She soon became fascinated with the life cycle of this plant that was used for the Omer sacrifice in the ancient Jerusalem Temple. My initial amusement grew into respect as I read how she observed and nurtured this tiny plot of grain from seed to harvest. Her reverence for that bit of barley heightened my own awareness of the local fields of grain that I take for granted.

All in all, this book was such a great read, I stayed up half the night with it. It has something for everybody -- I give it ten stars!

The absolute BEST book I've ever read on France and the French. Enthusiastic though unbiased, extensive and extremely well-documented but never dry or boring, lively but not too "journalist-like", this is an absolute must-read for whoever has an interest in this fascinating - though sometimes hard to grasp - country. Readers will likely understand France better thanks to this book. A real masterpiece. The author's knowledge of France (its history, famous authors, historians, politics, cultural patterns) is simply astonishing.

deep, unbiased, well researched in all aspects of the review. Written with excellent litterary talent, the book, although extensive, is never boring. One of the best I have ever read about the French and their country.

As an American in France I am particularly interested, andreasonablyknowledgeable about, works on france. I found Bernstein's book to provide an accurate and lively portrayal of a subject which is all too often romanticized or written about in a condescending way.

Bernstein is in top form. The influence of revolutionary poetics is apparent now across the internet, film, television and literature. Bernstein is without a doubt a fundamental contributor to these evolutions, and this book should not be missed.

I have to admit that I feel a bit depressed when reading Girly Man. Why? Because I know it's going to be awhile before I find another book of poetry this good, this funny, this original. Not all the poems work, but the best are far better than what anyone else is producing these days. The rest of this review is intentionally left blank.

Charles Bernstein's writing combines a scholar's discipline, an advocate's passion, a theorist's breadth, and a readiness to deflate everything with a good joke. In Girly Man, anything can serve as inspiration for a poem or essay: paintings in an exhibition, highway signs, and even war. Bernstein is among those rare writers who can perform their works effectively, and you can hear recordings of his reading online at Penn Sound and at the Electronic Poetry Center.

Henry Hyde's last name fits him well. He is a true Jeckyl and Hyde character constantly speaking about morality and virtue but displaying very little of it. I will always remember him mostly for his hypocrital, self intrested ramblings during the Clinton impeachment farce when he said" It's alright if this country has some corrupt judges". Is this man devoid of sanity? He showed the country that the impeachment was nothing more than his parties abuse of power and how they hijacked governmental authority for their own selfish interest and why they should not be in office.

This takes the gift wrapping paper off of Henry Hyde and shows him for the warped sociopath that he truly is. His deviance seems to have no boundaries, which is why his moralizing during the impeachment of the President was so startling and shameful. A MUST READ for every committed American.

As a moderate, I loved this book! For all Bill Clinton's faults, I always felt (as apparently did most Americans) that impeaching him for trying to keep his less-than-ideal sex life private was more than a bit over the top, and I often wondered about those who set themselves up as some sort of moral and ethical centers of the American political universe. How well would they stand up, if closely examined? Of course, we found out quickly about Hyde's "brief, youthful indiscretion". But this book gives the full details (from the point of view of the woman who was the object of his desire, and who says she still loves him; but who calls him hypocrital) of the affair, that it lasted 8 years, that it continued even after his wife found out about it. And then goes into Hyde's involvement in the S&L scandals (and yes, I know many congresscritters of both parties abused the system. But most of them didn't then set themselves up as examples of purity and wisdom, allowed to judge the faults and weaknesses of another). My personal take is this is an excellent book (though it is a stretch to blame Hyde for opposing abortion, and therefore he is responsible for women who suffered from botched illegal or qualified abortions), which shows a man who clearly believes he is above the rules, above the law, and that his constiuents are simply uninterested in his hypocrisy and deceit and abuse of his position (or else he considers them too stupid). Someone should send a copy to every household in his district and let those who support him know what he is really like.

Finally, an expansive and critical, although bewildering, survey of California's visual culture and its impact on American culture at large! Beautiful in its design and generous in illustrations, the catalog offers insight into the complexities of America's "wild frontier." What makes this catalog/exhibtion most intriguing is its inclusion of ephemera, framed by the organizers as important historical and cultural documents of life in California. Often overlooked, these items are often more telling than the cultural productions of visual artists and offer interesting juxtapositions to the art also presented. In addition to the discourse between hi and low culture, is the discussion of the cultural and racial diversity of California's population and its effect on culture and identity. The writers and curators bring together important documents, visuals, and art that construct diverse racial, gender, and sexual identities and also offer critical insight to these.

It's pretty massive, this book, and it feels like a lot of work went into it, but it's best thought of as a compendium of previous critical thought on the subject. On that basis it would be a good primer for students who are just beginning their work in cultural studies of "Californization," for the editors have done a fine job of summarizing and recommending the best books on the subject. Curatorially, the show was pretty vast, and like many LACMA productions, it was more Hollywood than Hollywood. Yet what works in a museum's large gallery spaces doesn't always translate onto the necessarily smaller page, and some of the best painting (if I may restrict myself to just one genre) that we saw up on the walls looks a little silly here: Agnes Pelton and Henrietta Shore in miniature look like prog-rock LP cover designers of the "Yes" era, suffering the indignity of having their twelve inch album designs shrunk down to CD size for the postmodern era. Something of the hazy beauty of Stanton Macdonald Wright still remains, though . . . What works best here is oddly what didn't really work in the show: the presence of a huge variety of topical items and ephemera, everything from signs that said, "Let's Keep California White," to that humorous can of "Los Angeles Smog" that you could buy as a souvenir if you went to LA in the 1950s (it's a great can with a full color comic book label--it might have invented all of pop art all by itself!) For sometimes in the exhibition so much ephemera seemed to hog your attention away from the more culturally approved "master works," where here in the catalogue, they assume point position in the continuing argument of the curators and the essayists charged with making California visible to us, step by step.

Sometimes this is done in wearisome detail, so that by the Cold War era I was like, oh for goodness sake, I've had enough history, and some of it seemed like rote. None of the scandals of history were omitted, from the Japanese internment camps to the Manson murders, from Upton Sinclair to the cuttings on Cathie Opie's back. Representative? In every way they could think of. And yet for some reason it wasn't one of those life changing exhibitions, probably because its thesis was so unoriginal.

The exhibit was astounding - this museum is HUGE! The works of art featured are very diverse, both in theme, style and culture. The book really is a nice tribute to this grand exhibition. Any Californian who likes both popular art and "marginal" or underground art would be satisfied with this book.