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The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s Hardcover - 1997
by Kevin Starr
What is now called "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. In "The Dream Endures", an excellent companion volume to his "Endangered Dreams", Kevin Starr shows how the good life helped to define American culture and society then and for years to come. 40 halftones.
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- Title The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s
- Author Kevin Starr
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 512
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
- Date 1997-05-08
- Features Dust Cover
- ISBN 9780195100792 / 0195100794
- Weight 1.9 lbs (0.86 kg)
- Dimensions 9.57 x 6.41 x 1.56 in (24.31 x 16.28 x 3.96 cm)
- Reading level 1510
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Library of Congress subjects California - Civilization - 20th century, Depressions - 1929 - California
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96017087
- Dewey Decimal Code 979.405
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- Booklist, 04/15/1997, Page 1379
- Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/1997, Page 209
- Library Journal, 05/01/1997, Page 122
- New York Times, 04/20/1997, Page 26
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New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. xii, 480 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Foreedge lightly soiled. Dust jacket with moderate shelfwear. "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 Starr shows how the good life prospered in California--in pursuits such as film, fiction, leisure, and architecture--and helped to define American culture and society then and for years to come. Starr previously chronicled how Californians absorbed the thousand natural shocks of the Great Depression--unemployment, strikes, Communist agitation, reactionary conspiracies--in…
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