Books written by Robert Gottlieb

  • America's Saints: The Rise of Mormon Power

    ... 113 House of Representatives , 51 Hoyos , Arturo de , 163 , 165 Hughes , Charles Evans , 88 , 171 Hughes , Howard , 115 , 120 Humphrey , Hubert , 93 Hunt , E. Howard , 89 Hunter , Howard , 239 Hunter , Rodello , 198 , 254 Husky Oil ...

  • Pastoral Capitalism: A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes

    In Production, Work, and Territory, edited by Allen J. Scott and Michael Storpor, 149–171. Winchester, MA: Allen and Unwin, 1986. Newark News. “Explains Plans of Laboratory.” Newark News, August 1, 1930. Newsweek.

  • Lives and Letters

    The product of a lifetime immersed in the literary, performing arts, and entertainment worlds, Lives and Letters spotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of a vast array of celebrated writers and performers in ...

  • Localist Movements in a Global Economy: Sustainability, Justice, and Urban Development in the United States

    PHS Makes Philadelphia Green. http:// www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org. ... Ph.D. dissertation, Science and Technology Studies Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. ... Porter, Michael, and Claas van der Linde. 1995.

  • Post-Ghetto

    See Deborah Kane and Rose Hayden-Smith, "What's for Lunch? A Review of School Food and Garden-Based Education in the United States using Portland Public Schools as a Model for Change" (paper presented at the Portland Culinary Alliance ...

  • Food Justice

    Constance L. Hays, “A Makeover for the TV Dinner: Swanson Is Being Upgraded to Restore Market Share,” New York Times, July 25, 1998. 8. Endrijonas, “Processed Foods from Scratch, 151; Shapiro, Something from the Oven, 19; ...

  • War on Waste: Can America Win Its Battle with Garbage?

    Tarnish on the Golden Arches , " Karen Stults , Business and Society Review , no . 63 . Fall 1987 ; interview with Karen Stultz . 1988 ; see also " Everyone's Backyard , " Citizen's Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste , vol . 5 , no .

  • Thirst for Growth: Water Agencies as Hidden Government in California

    Interview with Florn Kore ( 1987 ) , Mike Rector ( 1986 ) , and Stuart Pyle ( 1987 ) . 64. Groundwater Pollutant Study , San Joaquin Valley , Kern County California , Kern County Health Department , Leon M. Hebertson , health officer ...

  • Food Justice

    Peggy F. Barlett ( Cambridge , MA : MIT Press , 2005 ) . 17. Melody Hanatani , " Gardening for the Soul , ” Santa Monica Daily Press , August 3 , 2009 . 18. Andrew Smiley , personal communication , July 7 , 2009 , and September 18 ...

  • The Next Los Angeles, Updated with a New Preface: The Struggle for a Livable City

    While most historians, journalists, and filmmakers have focused on Los Angeles as a bastion of corporate greed, business boosterism, political corruption, cheap labor, exploited immigrants, and unregulated sprawl, The Next Los Angeles tells ...

  • The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City

    "With this rich account of its community and labor struggles, the city of angels—and apocalypse—becomes the city of hope."—Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America "This wonderful book, with its ...

  • Global Cities: Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China

    In this book, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng trace the global emergence of these urban areas and compare their responses to a set of six urban environmental issues.

  • George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker

    George Balanchine chronicles the life and achievements of this visionary artist from his early, almost accidental career in Russia, where his lifelong collaboration with Igor Stravinsky was forged, to his extraordinary accomplishments in ...

  • Reading Lyrics

    BEpoRE THE PARADE PAsses BY Before the parade passes by, I'm gonna go and taste Saturday's high life: Before the parade passes by, I'm gonnaget some life back into my ...

  • Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt

    Though the Bernhardt literature is vast, this is the first English-language biography to appear in decades, tracking the trajectory through which an illegitimate--and scandalous--daughter of a Jewish courtesan transformed herself into the ...

  • Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens

    What happened to those children is the fascinating subject of Robert Gottlieb's Great Expectations.

  • Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement

    Originally published in 1993, Forcing the Spring was quickly recognized as a seminal work in the field of environmental history. The book links the environmental movement that emerged in the...

  • Garbo

    She had no personal vanity, no interest in clothes and make-up, yet the story of Garbo is essentially the story of a face and the camera.

  • Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens

    Opening a unique window to Victorian England, this study of the author as a father highlights the strange and surprising stories of each of Dickens's ten children, from Kate, who became a successful artist, to Frank, who died after serving ...

  • Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement

    Forcing the Spring challenges standard histories of the environmental movement by offering a broad and inclusive interpretation of past environmentalist thought and a sweeping redefinition of the nature of the...