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David Littlejohn
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PUBLISHED: Aug.10.2011

The Big One

The Big One follows the lives of nine very different but interrelated characters through the day before, the day of, and the day after the greatest earthquake ever to hit San Francisco – an event expected in the very near future. It concludes with a huge, internationally televised memorial service for the dead a month later, when some of the mysteries that...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.25.1999

The Real Las Vegas: Life Beyond the Strip

A composite, contemporary view of the "real" Las Vegas--a boomtown of almost two million people whose lives are fundamentally shaped by the city's dominating industry, casino gambling. Individual journalists, under the direction of editor David Littlejohn, examine such aspects of life in Las Vegas today as megachurches, teenagers, black and Hispanic populations, pawn...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.25.1997

The Fate of the English Country House

From Booklist Littlejohn informs his reader in no uncertain terms that the "statelies" of England are an endangered species--referring to the large country mansions that are home to the country's landed gentry. In an informative account not as esoteric as the subject might sound, the author embarks on a tour of the remaining stately homes of England (and, for the sake of...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.25.1992

Ultimate Art: Essays around and about Opera

Anyone who cares about opera will find The Ultimate Art a thoroughly engaging book. David Littlejohn's essays are exciting, provocative, sometimes even outrageous. They reflect his deep love of opera--that exotic, extravagant, and perpetually popular hybrid performing art form--and his fascination with the many worlds from which it sprang.From its seventeenth-century beginnings,...

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About David

David Littlejohn: Biographical sketch I was born in San Francisco, as were my parents and grandparents. My grandfather’s grandfather came to California in 1850, along with a lot of other people. I’ve come to regard this state as...

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Causes David Littlejohn Supports

Mostly at UC Berkeley: Cal Performances, College of Environmental Design, Berkeley Art Museum, UC Library. Also MoveOn.org

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