RaveThe Boston Review\"While many other political commentators have told California’s story as a tale of charismatic gubernatorial leadership, or of the technology giants’ economic wizardry and world domination, Pastor’s analysis is far more nuanced—and far more useful. Most importantly, Pastor is the rare political observer who sees through the senselessness of the seemingly perennial question: \'Does our country have an economic problem or a race problem?\' Of course it is both ... It may well be that the damage we see to our institutions and to our collective trust is far worse under the Trump administration than it ever was in California’s bleakest days, but Pastor’s book, in many ways the culmination of a career studying the positive-sum relationships between economic growth and social equity, still offers pragmatic lessons for national politics.\
