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THE DREAM ENDURES
CALIFORNIA ENTERS THE 1940S |
| By: |
Kevin Starr |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£26.49 |
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£23.18 |
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£3.31 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195157974 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195157970 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2002 |
| Series: |
Americans California Dream Series |
| Pages: |
496 |
| Description: |
As the fifth volume in Kevin Starr's series Americans and the Californian Dream, The Dream Endures offers a panoramic account of the Golden State during the turning-point years before America's entry into World War II. Starr shows how good life prospered in California - in pursuits such as film, fiction, leisure, and architecture - and helped to define American culture and society then, and for years to come. |
| Synopsis: |
The fifth volume in Starr's classic history of California, The Dream Endures shows how Californians rebounded from the Great Depression to emerge in the 1930s into what is now known as "the good life." Starr illustrates the ways the good life prospered in California-in film, fiction, leisure, and architecture. Starr looks at the newly important places where Californians lived out this sunny lifestyle: areas like Los Angeles (where Hollywood lived), Palm Springs (where Hollywood vacationed), San Diego (where the Navy went), the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (where Einstein changed his view of the universe), and college towns like Berkeley. "In this, more than any other of Starr's monumental California histories, we see the stirrings of uniqueness in the social and cultural evolution of California. Starr's theme is relevant to all of America and the national destiny."-Neil Morgan, San Diego Union-Tribune "Enormously sensitive and moving. Social and cultural history doesn't get any better."-San Francisco Chronicle "In his monumental continuing study of California, Kevin Starr belongs in the company of the best."-Herbert Gold, Los Angeles Times Book Review |
| Illustrations: |
16 pp halftone plates |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Chosen as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1997 by Choice |
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