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Editorial Reviews
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The late 1930s and early 1940s introduced to California culture some of the features that still characterize it today, at least in the view of outsiders to the Golden State: surfing, drive-in movie theaters, barbecues, motels, polo shirts, and recreational vehicles. The period brought equally enduring but less superficial changes, too: advances and setbacks alike in race relations, resource management, urban development, and transportation. Kevin Starr continues his multivolume history of California with this deeply learned, always fascinating account of California at the dawn of the modern age, with a cast of characters ranging from the Native American hermit Fig Tree John to violinist Yehudi Menuhin and hardboiled-fiction master Raymond Chandler. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Library Journal
This latest volume of California State Librarian Starr's series (after Endangered Dreams, LJ 10/15/95) revisits the Golden State during the Thirties and focuses on the cultural, geographical, and urban factors that have made "California dreamin'" so attractive to Americans in the last 50 years. Among the dreams are the promise of the good life in resort communities, the cultural diversity of San Francisco, the "horizontality" of Los Angeles, and California's prominence on the Pacific rim. Starr's explanation of artistic, literary, musical, and architectural trends as well as that most uniquely California creation, the movies, gives this book a bright, optimistic quality that differs from the pessimistic view of his previous volume. The author combines rigorous scholarship with colloquial literary expression to give a thorough but easily readable portrait. Highly recommended for California collections.?Mary Ann Parker, Calif. Dept. of Water Res. Law Lib., Sacramento
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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The late 1930s and early 1940s introduced to California culture some of the features that still characterize it today, at least in the view of outsiders to the Golden State: surfing, drive-in movie theaters, barbecues, motels, polo shirts, and recreational vehicles. The period brought equally enduring but less superficial changes, too: advances and setbacks alike in race relations, resource management, urban development, and transportation. Kevin Starr continues his multivolume history of California with this deeply learned, always fascinating account of California at the dawn of the modern age, with a cast of characters ranging from the Native American hermit Fig Tree John to violinist Yehudi Menuhin and hardboiled-fiction master Raymond Chandler. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Library Journal
This latest volume of California State Librarian Starr's series (after Endangered Dreams, LJ 10/15/95) revisits the Golden State during the Thirties and focuses on the cultural, geographical, and urban factors that have made "California dreamin'" so attractive to Americans in the last 50 years. Among the dreams are the promise of the good life in resort communities, the cultural diversity of San Francisco, the "horizontality" of Los Angeles, and California's prominence on the Pacific rim. Starr's explanation of artistic, literary, musical, and architectural trends as well as that most uniquely California creation, the movies, gives this book a bright, optimistic quality that differs from the pessimistic view of his previous volume. The author combines rigorous scholarship with colloquial literary expression to give a thorough but easily readable portrait. Highly recommended for California collections.?Mary Ann Parker, Calif. Dept. of Water Res. Law Lib., Sacramento
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
See all Editorial Reviews
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