Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California by Frances Dinkelspiel, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2008, $29.95. In Westerns, bank robbers tend to get a modicum of sympathy whenever the bankers themselves are depicted —generally as robbers in their own right who do it, to paraphrase Woody Guthrie, “with a …
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