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1 online resource (1262 pages) |
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Americans and the California Dream |
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Americans and the California Dream
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| Contents |
Cover; Preface; Contents; I Suburban Assumptions; 1 San Fernando: Homes and Happiness in Residential Subdivisions; 2 Designs for the Good Life: Modernism, Tiki, Ranch; II Urban Perspectives; 3 Urban Expectations: San Diego Leverages Itself into Big-City Status; 4 Baghdad by the Bay: Herb Caen's San Francisco; 5 The Cardinal, the Chief, Walter O'Malley, and Buff Chandler: Redefining the City of Angels; 6 Downsides and Dividends: Los Angeles as Supercity; Photographs, Section One; III Politics and Public Works; 7 Warren, Nixon, Knight, Knowland: The Demise of Republican Centrism |
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8 Cold War Campus: The University of California and Other Secret Places9 Freeways to the Future: An Epic of Construction on Behalf of the Automobile; 10 Mare Nostrum: The State Water Project; IV Art and Life; 11 Provincials, Baghdaders, and Beats: Literary San Francisco in the 1950s; 12 Big Sur: The Search for Alternative Value; 13 Silent Generation: Coming of Age on the Coast of Dreams; 14 Brubeck! Jazz Goes to College; Photographs, Section Two; V Dissenting Opinions; 15 Largest State in the Nation: A Rebellion Against Growth and the Destruction of Environment |
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16 People of Color: The Beginning of the End for Jim Crow California17 Cool, Not Cool: Headlines and Transitions; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Acknowledgments; Index |
| Summary |
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 pivotal years. In a powerful blend of telling events, colorful personalities, and insightful analyses, Starr examines such issues as the overnight creation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Economic history
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
California -- History -- 1950- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018884
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California -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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California -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
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| Subject |
California
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199924301 |
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0199924309 |
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9780199923144 |
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0199923140 |
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0195153774 |
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9780195153774 |
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0199832498 |
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9780199832491 |
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