California Justice: Shootouts, Lynchings and Assassinations in the Golden State

Author/Contributor(s):	Kulczyk, David
Publisher:	Craven Street Books
Date:	8/1/2007
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Introducing the victims and perpetrators responsible for California's most notorious shootouts, lynchings, and assassinations, this account shows how homemade justice is never black-and-white. In relating these histories, this discussion also analyzes how and why Hollywood storylines almost always follow the same skewed and unrealistic arc in which the bad guys abuse the good guys, the good guy take the high road until the bad guy has gone too far, and the good guy picks off the bad guys, one by one, in an increasingly dramatic fashion.