No book is the work of its authors alone. We would like to thank several people for their insights into the California experience. They include Tim Hodson at the Center for California Studies (CSU Sacramento), Jaime Regalado at the Pat Brown Institute (Cal State, Los Angeles), Fernando Guerra at the Center for the Study of Los Angeles (Loyola, Marymount), and Tom Hogen-Esch, Martin Saiz, and Larry Becker in the Department of Political Science at Cal State Northridge. We would also like to thank the reviewers who provided their scholarly analysis of this new edition: Damon Conklin (Golden Gate University) and Sean Q. Kelly (California State University—Channel Islands).
In addition, we would like to thank Rian Medlin, Christopher Johnson, Heather Wolfson, and Maggie Hanson for their research assistance with the second edition.