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Peter Schrag Dies at 94; Wrote of Dangers of California’s Populist Streak
His best-received book explored the state’s infatuation with voter initiatives, which were sometimes pushed with anti-immigrant fervor.
Peter Schrag, a longtime opinion editor of The Sacramento Bee who wrote a well-received book about the conundrum of California governance — a state blessed with extraordinary wealth and opportunity and, in his view, cursed with too much populist democracy — died on March 19 in Davis, Calif. He was 94.
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