A Disorderly House: The Brown-Unruh Years in Sacramento

by James R. Mills

Book by Mills, James R.

Genres: History

224 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1987

Reviews

[Mary E · Rating 5 out of 5]

We bought this book in the gift shop at the State Capitol in Sacramento in October. There is a picture of Jesse Unruh on the cover and we recognized him at once. The Pat Brown years were in my youth, from 1960-1968. Jesse Unruh was the Speaker of the House in the State Legislature and was the real force behind all the progress the Brown administration made. During Pat Browh's time California was a rich state, building freeways, schools and other public works. The California Water Project was built during that time.

James R. Mills, the author, was a State Assemblyman from San Diego and one of Jesse Unruh's inner circle. He tells an informative and entertaining story of those years. It is like walking down Memory Lane for me. Some of those years I was at San Francisco State. Some of them I lived in Patterson and watched, first-hand, as Highway 5 and the Delta-Mendota Canal were being built to the west of town.

I didn't pay a lot of attention to politics at that time. In this book I caught up with what was going on in Sacramento during those years. It made me wish I had paid more attention back then.

[Jonathan M. Eisenberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is the best political memoir I have read. Very fun to read.