This volume deals with the years of World War II and after. In the 1940s California changed from a regional centre into the dominant economic, social and cultur
A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream
In Material Dreams, Starr turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920s, when some two million Americans migrated to Califor
Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic
California Gothic explores the California dream and its dark inversion as a nightmare, as illustrated in fiction, poetry, and film. California began as a litera