Dream Endures - California Enters the 1940s

Informationen zum Autor Kevin Starr is State Librarian of California, Chairman of the State of California Sesquicentennial Commission, contributing editor of The Los Angeles Times, and a member of the faculty at the University of Southern California. He is the author of a number of books, including Americans and the California Dream, Inventing the Dream, Material Dreams, and Endangered Dreams. Klappentext What is now called "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. In "The Dream Endures", an excellent companion volume to his "Endangered Dreams", Kevin Starr shows how the good life helped to define American culture and society then and for years to come. 40 halftones. Zusammenfassung In this fifth volume of Starr's history of California life and culture, the focus is on the positive aspects of California life during the 1930s -- especially how the state developed a style of life that would greatly influence American society as a whole.

Product details

• Authors: Adjun, Kevin Starr, Kevin (State Librarian of California Starr
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.1997
• EAN: 9780195100792
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510079-2
• No. of pages: 512
• Series: Americans & the California Dre; Americans California Dream Series; Americans California Dream Series; Americans and the California D
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous