Benjamin C. Truman: California Booster & Bon Vivant

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1984 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 600 copies printed by The Grace Hoper Press. 89 pp. Portrait frontis. Gilt-lettered green cloth. A very fine copy. Highlights the checkered career of one of California's most articulate and prolific promoters. Author of Semi-Tropical California, Homes and Happiness in the Golden State, and hundreds of florid newspaper articles, he transformed his readers' perception of the state from one of reckless mining settlements to that of a paradise of golden oranges, health-giving climate and limitless opportunity. Includes bibliographic notes and a checklist of Truman's writings..