{"product_id":"9780762788361","title":"Elusive State of Jefferson","description":"By 1941, a nascent statehood movement began to  coalesce into an active and explicit secession campaign seeking to  carve from Northern California and Southern Oregon a new State of  Jefferson. Yreka, California, home of the secession movement, was named  the temporary state capital. Local proponents, Members of the State of  Jefferson   Citizens Committee, began to stop traffic along Highway 99  at armed roadblocks to pass out political broadsides – their  Proclamation of Independence. And, in December of that year, Judge John  Childs of Crescent City, California, was elected the first Governor of  the State of Jefferson.The United States' entry  into World War II just days later interrupted this growing movement.  News of the bombing of Pearl Harbor replaced the planned coverage of  Child's election and overshadowed Jeffersonians perceived  marginalization with a national sense of unity. But today what often is  referred to as the mythical State of Jefferson remains as both an emblem  of the north counties' frustrations and as a cultural signifier that  differentiates the region from the rest of California and the nation.Through  interviews with residents and travels through the region, Laufer  reveals the story of what could have been and the identity of the region  that remains even more than sixty years after the apex of the movement.","brand":"Peter Laufer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45872604807486,"sku":"9780762788361","price":494.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780762788361_9cd571c6-f8f2-4875-8035-f39c75ee4a66.jpg?v=1707321520","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780762788361","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}