Title: Inventing the dream :
Authors: Starr, Kevin.; Vidal, Gore,
Date: 1985
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: xi, 380 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: F
Contents: Place, patterns, premises -- Early sojourners and formulations -- Art and life in the turn-of-the-century Southland -- Pasadena and the Arroyo: two modes of Bohemia -- Works, days, Georgic beginnings -- Arthur Page Brown and the dream of San Francisco -- Reforming California -- Progressivism and after -- Stories and dreams: the movies come to Southern California -- Hollywood, mass culture, and the Southern California experience.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): California, Southern--History.; California, Southern--Social life and customs.