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Died. Harold Dunbar Cooley, 76, Democratic Congressman from North Carolina from 1934 to 1966; of emphysema; in Wilson, N.C. Cooley was chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture for 16 years and veteran of countless annual farm battles. He was the only Southern Democratic Congressman who survived a refusal to sign the "Southern Manifesto" against racial integration...
CALIFORNIA by LELAND FREDERICK COOLEY 607 pages. Avon...
Novelist Leland Frederick Cooley works the genealogical lode like a Forty-Niner. In a preface to his 607-page paperback epic, Cooley speaks pointedly of his Mexican great-grandmother and his Mexican-Welsh grandmother. Then he attempts a vast, three-generation dynastic "saga" of the Lewis family. It starts with a Yankee ancestor's jumping ship at Monterey to start a dynasty in the 1830s and ends in the 1960s with the business-and land-rich heirs grimacing over the pot parties of their young and wondering what catastrophes Cesar Chavez and his troublemakers are going to visit...
...Cooley's narrative wanders between epic trash and a dogged replica of history. He plies the big-state genre, hoping his readers will be thinking of, say, Hawaii or Giant. They probably won't. Cooley's stagehands bang history back and forth: "Santa Ana is a fool. No man of reason can talk to him." Canned narrative alternates with archaic sex scenes...
...Cooley's book is an Avon paperback original, which started this fall with a first printing of 500,000, and is into a second printing now. The customers would get much more absorbing reading about California if they bought Kevin Starr's book instead. It is better history, for one thing −a long historical essay reflecting on the meaning of the California experience. The Burr senior tutor at Harvard's Eliot House, Starr writes an occasionally musty prose that smells of the stacks. Still, he draws upon a wealth of material, and his research is lively...