Vineland & Reagan

[Mark Kohut]

A kind of D'Uh moment for me, not young enouhg to have an excuse,

But, OBA wrote a famous piece about the Watts "riots' of 1965, correct?

Those events led to Governor Pat Brown losing the gubernatorial race 
to that reactionary Ron Reagan within a year, a book tells me.  

Vineland, set in Caifornia,  is about President Ronald Reagan's America of the 80s.

I knew TRP had been following America like an artist all his life, but belatedly I see he had 
an insider's perspective, so to spaek, on Reagan's America and the "dark joys of social control" in California
from almost 15 years earlier. 

D"Oh