Oakland, the Story of a City by Beth Bagwell

“It makes you want to read each chapter.” “As I was leafing through it the other day, I kept getting sucked in,” Mailman said. Mailman was also enthusiastic about the book. When the Montclair Library asked what book it should select there was a huge outpouring for it.” “The way she wrote it makes it timeless and with an awareness that she knew people would be reading it years hence. “I think it’s still so relevant today,” Mailman said of the book. “It’s a wonderful book, and I’m honored I got to write the afterword when they published the update in 2012.”īagwell’s articles and book played a large part in efforts to preserve and celebrate the city’s past, and in 1980 she was a co-founder and the first president of the Oakland Heritage Alliance, formed at a time when urban renewal was in the process of modernizing Oakland’s downtown and erasing the past by removing entire blocks.

“Beyond that, Beth Bagwell’s book was incredibly well-written and well-researched, with a lot of background that shows an understanding of the times and their context,” she said. “I think people really hunger for local history about who lived here before you and what it was like,” said Erika Mailman, an author and former Montclarion editor who followed in Bagwell’s footsteps by writing a column about Oakland history. The book evolved in 1982 from a series of well-received articles Bagwell researched and wrote for The Montclarion in 1978 and ‘79. The Friends of the Montclair Library are hosting the 2020 reading series of six books with Oakland as their setting, starting with “Oakland: The Story of a City” by Beth Bagwell, a work that has its origins with The Montclarion and remains a timeless reference work on local history. OL5905178W Page_number_confidence 92.95 Pages 314 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220331170144 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 479 Scandate 20220330015712 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0891411461 Tts_version 4.Author Thompson to discuss his Steph Curry biography at Montclair library Urn:lcp:oaklandstoryofci0000bagw:epub:6c2fb46f-e5bd-429d-81dd-8d705df12a6e Foldoutcount 0 Identifier oaklandstoryofci0000bagw Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s26cctm431z Invoice 1652 Isbn 0891411461 Lccn 82013262 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9978 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000579 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:09:06 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA40574402 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

Oakland, the Story of a City by Beth Bagwell