State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream

by Jeff Biggers

Book Overview

State Out of the Union is award-winning journalist and historian Jeff Biggers' riveting account of Arizona, the famed frontier state whose conflict over immigration and state's rights has become a national bellwether. Biggers shows how Arizona's long history of labor and civil rights battles, its contentious entry into the union, as well as cyclical upheavals over immigration rights, place the state front and center in a greater American story...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568587023
• ISBN13: 9781568587028
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Bold Type Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher