Dream Endures - California Enters the 1940s

Zusatztext "Stendhal described the novel as a mirror passing along the roadway, suggesting that the novelist's gift is limited by how he aims his reflecting glass. A great historian combines this relentless appetite for the world as he finds it with a plausible evaulation of its meaning. In his monumental continuing study of California, Kevin Starr belongs in the company of the best."--Herbert Gold, Los Angeles Times Book Review Informationen zum Autor Kevin Starr is State Librarian of California and University Professor in the Department of History at the University of Southern California. He is the author of six books in the Americans and the California Dream series. Klappentext The fifth volume in Starr's classic history of California shows how the people rebounded from the Great Depression to emerge in the 1930s into what is now known as "the good life." Illustrations. Zusammenfassung This text shows how Californians rebounded from the Great Depression to emerge in the 1930s into what is now known as "the good life." The author illustrates the ways this prospered in California - in film, fiction, leisure, and architecture.

Product details

• Authors: Adjun, Kevin Starr, Kevin (State Librarian of California Starr, Kevin (State Librarian of California; Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning Starr, Starr Kevin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2002
• EAN: 9780195157970
• ISBN: 978-0-19-515797-0
• No. of pages: 492
• Series: Americans and the California D; Americans and the California Dream; Americans and the California Dream; Americans California Dream Series; Americans and the California D
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History; California, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / United States, Second World War, Social and cultural history, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), History of the Americas, Modern warfare, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General