Game Changers: Twelve Elections That Transformed California

***Winner of the 2014 California Historical Society Book Award***

Game Changers provides a history of California through the prism of twelve elections that dramatically impacted subsequent generations of Californians and forever changed the direction of the state. Using primary research (interviews, oral histories, archival files) as well as secondary research, Game Changers explores, explains and interprets the circumstances and consequences of twelve far-reaching elections in which California voters -- whether by margins wide or narrow -- charted the state's bellwether course. Chapters move from the early days of astonishing graft at the state's highest echelons to today's storied battles over the influence of monied interests, term limits and do-it-yourself democracy.