Visit us at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2012
Third Millennium Publishing, Marina Dundjerski and the UCLA Store will be at the
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books held this year at the University of Southern
California campus. We're in booth 959 (near Tommy Trojan) this weekend,
April 21-22 with copies of UCLA: The First Century.
Please do come down and see us if you're in the area. We look forward to meeting you.
Diesel bookstore signing event: Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012
Photo (left): Dundjerski autographs UCLA: The First Century for Norm Abrams,
UCLA interim chancellor emeritus, at Diesel in Brentwood.
Photo (right): Dundjerski with student research assistants (from left to right)
Diana Hernandez, Derek Lipkin and Camille Ray.
Brentwood - Marina Dundjerski signs
UCLA: The First Century
MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2012 AT 9:54AM
Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood welcomes Marina Dundjerski to the store to sign copies of
her new book, UCLA: The First Century, on Sunday, February 12th at 3pm.
This new definitive history of UCLA provides a full account of the institution, from its humble
beginnings to its current standing as one of the world’s most prestigious public research
universities. The book is a chronological historical narrative, with in-depth sections on campus
traditions and the history of Bruin athletics.
Ever since her days as news editor of the UCLA Daily Bruin and as campus correspondent
for the Los Angeles Times, Marina Dundjerski has been writing about her alma mater in one
way or another. Since 2003, she has chronicled UCLA’s history as director of the UCLA
History Project. Read more...
Marina Dundjerski interviews
Ann Rieber Plauzoles (blog radio)
THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012
(Friday Jan. 20, 2012 12:00 PM PST by rarebird radio on blogtalkradio)
Marina Dundjerski, author of UCLA: THE FIRST CENTURY, discusses UCLA history and impacts with great-granddaughter of UCLA's first dean of the College of Letters and Science (Charles Henry Rieber) and multi-committee member notable, Ann Rieber Plauzoles.
Call in number to speak with the host: (626) 414-3413. Read post on blogtalkradio...
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012
(Article in L.A. Observed blog, Kevin Roderick, Jan. 9, 2012)
A new history book, UCLA: The First Century, has hundreds of photographs of the campus through the years, but this might be my favorite. I'm a sucker for color images of eras I previously knew only in black and white. This one shows 1940s students on the quad outside Powell Library. Read more...
KCRW's Lisa Napoli interviews author
Marina Dundjerski about UCLA's early years
FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2012 AT 2:22PM
(KCRW's All Things Considered at 6:44PM, Jan 5. 2012):
You don't have to be a Bruin to appreciate the impact and history of UCLA. A new book, eight years in the making, chronicles how the school became a major institution in Westwood. KCRW's Lisa Napoli interviews author Marina Dundjerski ('94) about the early years. Did you know that UCLA wasn't always in Westwood, for instance? Chock-full with 900 photographs.
Listen to the interview here: http://soundcloud.com/kcrw/kcrws-lisa-napoli-interviews
TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012 AT 12:46PM
(Article in Los Angeles Times, Dec. 29, 2011):
Of the many photographs in a new history of UCLA, one is especially arresting. The photo, from April 1929, shows the school’s first four buildings on its soon-to-open Westwood campus with little else around for miles but rolling hills and a few houses. “The campus is so far out in the country that it’s obvious only farmers will ever be the students’ neighbors,” the caption reads, quoting a not-particularly-far-sighted journalist at the time. Clearly, the growth of UCLA and surrounding Westside neighborhoods was never a given. The school’s unusual journey to academic prominence -- with political intrigue and student unrest along the way -- is the basic narrative of “UCLA: The First Century,” a lavish 360-page coffee table book by Marina Dundjerski.
Read more (links to full review on the LA Times site)
A centennial education
MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2011 AT 5:36PM
(Article in UCLA Today, Dec. 06, 2011):
“The normal school that thought it could be a university,” as UCLA was once mocked,
is approaching its 100th birthday, and a new history book, “UCLA: The First Century,” is
a loving early birthday gift. The just-released book immerses readers in the school’s
emotional struggle to become a full-fledged university, unveils little-known stories like
UCLA’s secret role in the atomic Manhattan Project and dabbles in lighter histories, too,
including a retrospective on mascots through the years.
Read more (links to full story on the UCLA Today site)...
MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2011 AT 5:29PM
(Article in The Daily Bruin, 1 Dec. 2011):
In 1942, UCLA and USC students put their differences aside and used the football rivalry game to raise almost $2.1 million in war bonds.
This piece of university history, which researchers found in a promotion in an old issue of the Daily Bruin, is included in “UCLA: The First Century” – the first UCLA history book to be published in 42 years.
Read more (links to full story on The Daily Bruin site)...
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2011 AT 11:20AM
Meet the Author, Sunday, Dec. 4 1-3 p.m. UCLA Store Book Zone
A-Level, Ackerman Union
