The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s - Paperback
by Kevin Starr
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Availability:In StockContributor:Kevin StarrSeries:Americans and the California DreamPublish date:2002-11-28Pages:496
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780195157970ISBN-10:195157974UPC:9780195157970Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Social HistoryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.18 x 6.18 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.5807Product ID:SCRB788XHX
The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s
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...
Series: Americans and the California Dream
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780195157970ISBN-10:195157974UPC:9780195157970Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Social HistoryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.18 x 6.18 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.5807Product ID:SCRB788XHX
Kevin Starr is State Librarian of California, Chairman of the State of California Sesquicentennial Commission, contributing editor of The Los Angeles Times, and a member of the faculty at the University of Southern California. He is the author of a number of books, including Americans and the California Dream, Inventing the Dream, Material Dreams, and Endangered Dreams.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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