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Product: By Kevin Starr - California (A History) (Modern Library) (Modern Library Pbk. Ed)
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Product: California and the Californians
Description: California and the Californians by David Starr Jordan
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Product: Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963
Description: A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar period--1950 to 1963--when the California we know today first burst into prominence.

Starr brilliantly illuminates the dominant economic, social, and cultural forces in California in these pivotal years. In a powerful blend of telling events, colorful personalities, and insightful analyses, Starr examines such issues as the overnight creation of the postwar California suburb, the rise of Los Angeles as Super City, the reluctant emergence of San Diego as one of the largest cities in the nation, and the decline of political centrism. He explores the Silent Generation and the emergent Boomer youth cult, the Beats and the Hollywood "Rat Pack," the pervasive influence of Zen Buddhism and other Asian traditions in art and design, the rise of the University of California and the emergence of California itself as a utopia of higher education, the cooling of West Coast jazz, freeway and water projects of heroic magnitude, outdoor life and the beginnings of the environmental movement. More broadly, he shows how California not only became the most populous state in the Union, but in fact evolved into a mega-state en route to becoming the global commonwealth it is today.

Golden Dreams continues an epic series that has been widely recognized for its signal contribution to the history of American culture in California. It is a book that transcends its stated subject to offer a wealth of insight into the growth of the Sun Belt and the West and indeed the dramatic transformation of America itself in these pivotal years following the Second World War.
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Product: Los Angeles. Portrait of a City
Brand: Taschen
TASCHEN America Llc
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Product: The Great Book of California: The Crazy History of California with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia (A Trivia Nerds Guide to the History of the United States) (Volume 3)
Brand: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Product: California History for Kids: Missions, Miners, and Moviemakers in the Golden State, Includes 21 Activities (39) (For Kids series)
Brand: Chicago Review Press
Used Book in Good Condition
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Product: California: On the Edge of American History
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Product: California: A History
Brand: Wiley-Interscience
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Product: California: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
Brand: Modern Library
Color: Orange
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Product: Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003
Brand: Vintage
Color: Black
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Product: Historical Atlas of California: With Original Maps
Brand: University of California Press
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Product: Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950 (Americans and the California Dream)
Brand: Oxford University Press
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Product: The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s (Americans and the California Dream)
Brand: Oxford University Press
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Product: Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era (Americans and the California Dream)
Brand: Oxford University Press
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Product: Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915
Brand: Oxford University Press
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Product: California Book
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