TY - BOOK AU - Starr, Kevin. TI - Inventing the dream: California through the Progressive Era SN - 195034899 AV - F 867 .St28 1986 PY - 1986/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press N1 - Includes index; Series statement from author's Material dreams; Bibliography: p. 340-366 N2 - 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 ER -