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  • Golden Gate

    The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge

    de Kevin Starr ...
    The Golden Gate Bridge links the urbanity of San Francisco with the wildheadlands of Marin County, as if to suggest the paradox of Californiaand America itself-the place that Fitzgerald saw as the last spotcommensurate with the human capacity for wonder. The bridge, completedin 1937, also announced to the world America's engineering prowess andfull assumption of its destined continental dominance. ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • California

    A History

    de Kevin Starr ...
    Series Libro 23 - Modern Library Chronicles
    “A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild west, having to wait until 1850 before it could force its way into statehood. so what tamed it? Mr. Starr’s answer is a combination of great men, great ideas and great projects.”—The EconomistFrom the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, the Golden State’s premier historian distills the entire sweep of ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Dream Endures

    California Enters the 1940s

    de Kevin Starr ...
    Series series Americans and the California Dream
    What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. Motels, home trailers, drive-ins, barbecues, beach life and surfing, sports from polo and tennis and golf to mountain climbing and skiing, "sportswear" (a word coined at the time), and sun suits were all a part of the good life--perhaps California's most distinctive influence of the 1930s. In The Dream Endures, Kevin ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Material Dreams

    Southern California through the 1920s

    de Kevin Starr ...
    Series series Americans and the California Dream
    Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream and indeed one of the finest narrative historians writing today on any subject. The first two installments of his monumental cultural history, "Americans and the California Dream," have been hailed as "mature, well-proportioned and marvelously diverse (and diverting)" (The New York Times Book Review) and "rich in details and alive with ... Leer más

    $50.99 USD

  • Coast of Dreams

    de Kevin Starr ...
    In this extraordinary book, Kevin Starr–widely acknowledged as the premier historian of California, the scope of whose scholarship the Atlantic Monthly has called “breathtaking”–probes the possible collapse of the California dream in the years 1990—2003. In a series of compelling chapters, Coast of Dreams moves through a variety of topics that show the California of the last decade, when the state ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Golden Dreams

    California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963

    de Kevin Starr ...
    Series series Americans and the California Dream
    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, ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Endangered Dreams

    The Great Depression in California

    de Kevin Starr ...
    Series series Americans and the California Dream
    California, Wallace Stegner observed, is like the rest of the United States, only more so. Indeed, the Golden State has always seemed to be a place where the hopes and fears of the American dream have been played out in a bigger and bolder way. And no one has done more to capture this epic story than Kevin Starr, in his acclaimed series of gripping social and cultural histories. Now Starr carries ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Inventing the Dream

    California through the Progressive Era

    de Kevin Starr ...
    Series series Americans and the California Dream
    This second volume in Kevin Starr's passionate and ambitious cultural history of the Golden State focuses on the turn-of-the-century years and the emergence of Southern California as a regional culture in its own right. "How hauntingly beautiful, how replete with lost possibilities, seems that Southern California of two and three generations ago, now that a dramatically diferent society has ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Golden Dreams

    California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963

    de Kevin Starr ...
    Series series Americans and the California Dream
    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, ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915

    de Kevin Starr ...
    Series series Americans and the California Dream
    Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country. ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD

  • Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915

    de Kevin Starr ...
    Series series Americans and the California Dream
    Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country. ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD

  • Embattled Dreams

    California in War and Peace, 1940-1950

    de Kevin Starr ...
    Series series Americans and the California Dream
    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 ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD