Inventing the dream : California through the Progressive Era /

Starr, Kevin.

Inventing the dream : California through the Progressive Era / Kevin Starr. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1986 - xi, 380 p., [22] p. of plates : ill. 24 cm.

Includes index. Series statement from author's Material dreams.

Bibliography: p. 340-366.

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 different society has emerged in its place, " writes Starr. www.alibris.com

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