Chinatown Dreams: The Life and Photographs of George Lee [Paperback]

Geoffrey Dunn (Editor)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Capitola Book Co; First Edition, 1st Printing edition (November 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0932319076
• ISBN-13: 978-0932319074
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,501,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Geoffrey Dunn is an award-winning author and documentary filmmaker with more than three decades experience as an investigative reporter. A contributor to The Huffington Post, where he has broken several national stories since the 2008 presidential campaign, Dunn has also served as a Senior Editor for Metro Newspapers in Northern California, where he has garnered awards for investigative journalism from the National Newspaper Association, the California Newspaper Publishers Association, and the Peninsula Press Club. His books include the Amazon bestseller "The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power," "Santa Cruz Is In the Heart," and "Chinatown Dreams: The Life and Photographs of George Lee." He also contributed a significant chapter to "Una Storia Segreta: The Secret History of Italian American Evacuation and Internment During World War II." His documentary films include the award-winning "Calypso Dreams," "Miss...or Myth?," "Chinese Gold," and "Dollar a Day, 10¢ a Dance." Dunn received a B.A. in politics, as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology, from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he has taught courses in documentary film, nonfiction writing and American political history and culture. He received an Excellence in Teaching Award there in 2000. Dunn was raised in the Santa Cruz Italian fishing community and worked in the Pacific Coast fishery industry until the mid-1980s.