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Title: In My Father's Name by Mark Arax ISBN: 0-671-01002-6 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: who needs novels?
Comment: I had trouble putting the book down, finished reading it last night. I thought it very well written, including descriptions of his family history and cultural backgound that might otherwise have risked being less than interesting. I was particularly taken by his striving to understand all involved and their acts, and not to judge people too simplistically. P.S. Try searching "arax" and "fresno" on the internet... and how can someone who read the book say that the author did not entertain the idea that his father might have been involved in illicit dealings? From the book one can only reasonably say that he did consider this possibility, actively.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Tale of Corruption in California's Central Valley
Comment: In My Father's Name : A Family, a Town, a Murder is a captivating, truth-based who-done-it. But also much more. It's a scrutinizing look at the ugly goings-on in a town gone wrong where the mafia-like police force and city governors were key corrupters. It's also one man's loving account of the inexplicable loss of his father through murder and the loss of his mother after a long battle with cancer.
I felt a sense of loss myself when I finished reading this highly compelling book.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Amazing Story
Comment: When I first started this book, I was amazed at the description that Arax gives of Fresno. Being a life-long resident of Fresno, I can imagine everything he describes. Then I read about the corruption that I'd heard about all my life, and see the proof of it all. I was shocked beyond belief.
Then I read about these supposedly upstanding citizens that I've heard about all my life (who has community centers and arena's named after them here in Fresno) and I feel like a veil has been pulled from my eyes.
Mark Arax tells a story of life in a lot of small, and large, cities. The one part of the story I wish would have been included (but it is safer for him NOT to include, being that he is still a resident of Fresno) is not only the corruption of the past, but the corruption of the present as well. He describes how the city of Fresno was built upon corruption, ran in corruption for many years, and hinted to the present day corruption, but had to stop. Hopefully he will write another book about Fresno, and reveal something to everyone.
If you like to read, and you like to be trapped by a book, then I suggest you purchase this book.
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Title: The King of California: J. G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire by Mark Arax, Rick Wartzman ISBN: 1586480286 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Where I Was From by JOAN DIDION ISBN: 0679433325 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Mexifornia: A State of Becoming by Victor Davis Hanson ISBN: 1893554732 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Bloodvine: A Novel by Aris Janigian ISBN: 1890771635 Publisher: Heyday Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 by Kevin Starr ISBN: 0195042336 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 1986 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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