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Documentary Supplements to The Gold and the Blue

Edited by Clark Kerr
2003

In his two-volume memoir, The Gold and the Blue: Academic Triumphs and Political Turmoil, Clark Kerr refers to key documents that describe people, events, and policies that shaped the University of California during his years as the Berkeley campus's first chancellor and as university president. Many of those documents are reproduced in this volume. They range from memorial statements and testimonials for associates who worked tirelessly for the university to documents that convey student, legal, and administrative points of view during the 1960's Free Speech Movement. Also included...

Latinos and Public Policy in California: An Agenda for Opportunity

David Lopez
Andres Jimenez
2003

Despite California's Mexican origins, the Mexican/Latino presence represented no more than three percent of the state's population at the beginning of the 20th century. While this presence grew slowly but steadily during the state's postwar population boom, in the last three decades of the 20th century Latinos emerged as the most dynamic sector of the state's population. In the 1990s Latinos accounted for 85 percent of all population growth in the state. Currently Latinos are one-third of the population and the largest ethnic group among the state's school children. If these demographic...

Strategy, Ethics, and the War on Terrorism

Albert C. Pierce
2003

In two long, thoughtful essays, Albert Pierce, the first director of the Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy, explores the shifting terrain where strategy and ethics collide in the war on terrorism. The third piece of this important work is a detailed case study of the United States' ill-fated intervention in Haiti. Pierce, a professor of military strategy at the National War College, is currently directing a multi-year project on ethical challenges and the future of conflict.

Turning Points and Ironies: Issues and Events--Berkeley, 1959-67

Ray Colvig
2004

In this volume, Ray Colvig, who headed UC Berkeley’s office of public information for nearly 30 years, provides a definitive account of the people and the politics that shaped the campus during the troubled years of the 1960s. He offers, as well, a unique rendition of the perceptions and interpretations of the media and other outside observers during that period.

Central to Colvig’s compelling narrative is Clark Kerr, who was attacked by both the left and the right, each doing so for their own reasons and each distorting Kerr’s intentions and actions. Colvig lays bare the...

California Votes: The 2002 Governor's Race & The Recall That Made History

Gerald C. Lubenow, editor
2003

As the effort to recall Governor Gray Davis swirled toward the polls in the spring of 2003, the IGS publications staff was just putting the finishing touches on the definitive account of his election in the autumn of 2002. Every four years since 1990, the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, has assembled the key players in the governor's race-campaign managers and consultants, pollsters and political operatives, money people and the media- to assess what really happened.

But, as our editing progressed, so did the recall effort. And about the...

The Global Campus: Education Abroad and the University of California

William H. Allaway
2003

Bill Allaway traces the birth of Berkeley's education abroad program. Allaway's vision of the value of an international academic/cultural experience for students coupled with his peerless skill as Berkeley's ambassador to the world enabled him to navigate the complex international world with a personal style that was free from arrogance and marked by a droll wit. Thanks to Allaway, Berkeley's education abroad program achieved what University Professor Neil Smelser calls "the enviable status of being the finest of its kind in the world."

Lessons from the Iraq War

Robert H. Scales, Jr.
2004

A decorated soldier and a distinguished scholar, Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr. USA (ret.) is the author of Certain Victory, the official account of the Army in the Gulf War, and Firepower in Limited War, a history of the evolution of firepower doctrine since the end of the Korean War. In 1995 Scales created the Army After Next program, which was the Army's first attempt to build a strategic game and operational concept for future land warfare. This volume, Lessons from the Iraq War, is drawn from a series of talks Scales gave in the Spring of 2004 as the Nimitz Memorial...

The Rise and Demise of the UCSC Colleges

Carlos G. Noreña
2004

Carlos G. Noreña traces the decade-long effort to create a new kind of UC campus. The passion in this lengthy essay is deeply rooted in the prolonged and vigorous debate on the pros and cons of the collegial plan for UC Santa Cruz conceived by President Clark Kerr and Chancellor Dean McHenry.

"Professor Noreña's thoughtful and fair-minded history of the Santa Cruz campus will attract attention for the light it sheds on the difficulties of academic innovation. It calls to mind Niccolo Machiavelli's provocative words: 'There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of...

Win the Right Way: How to Run Effective Local Campaigns in California

Christine Trost
Matt Grossmann
2005

Candidates don't have to sling mud to win. This state-of-the-art guide combines the latest research on voter attitudes from UC Berkeley's Center for Campaign Leadership with advice from leading campaign strategists on how to run clean, honest, effective campaigns for public office in California. Rather than echo the conventional wisdom that negative campaigning works, this guide shows candidates how to plan a campaign, build an effective organization, develop and deliver a clear and compelling message, and mobilize voters on election day-all in a way that promotes public trust in both the...

A Future Worth Creating

Thomas P.M. Barnett
2006

This bold and important book strives to be a practical "strategy for a Second American Century." In this brilliantly argued work, Thomas Barnett calls globalization "this country's gift to history" and explains why its wide dissemination is critical to the security of not only America but the entire world. As a senior military analyst for the U.S. Naval War College, Barnett is intimately familiar with the culture of the Pentagon and the State Department (both of which he believes are due for significant overhauls). He explains how the Pentagon, still in shock at the rapid dissolution...