Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950

by Kevin Starr

Book Overview

The sixth volume in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history--Kevin Starr's monumental Americans and the California Dream--Embattled Dreams is a peerless work of cultural history following California in the years surrounding World War II.
During the 1940s California ascended to a new, more powerful role in the nation. Starr describes the vast expansion of the war industry and California's role as the "arsenal of democracy" (especially...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195168976
• ISBN13: 9780195168976
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"