Golden Dreams

by Kevin Starr

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195153774
• ISBN13: 9780195153774
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.5"