Ben Beitler, a doctoral candidate in the French Ph.D. program and native of Palo Atlo, shares his review and analysis of Malcolm Harris's 720-page text Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. As a contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ben brings perspective and historical analysis to envision change around his area of research interest: exploring environmental conflict in film and literature.

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