The Dream Endures (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Kevin Starr
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1900-1945
- Setting: California
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Culture, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Literature, Art or artists, Science or scientists, California, West, U.S., Immigration or emigration, Hollywood, Astronomy or astronomers, Cities or towns
- Locales: California
Kevin Starr is the author of Americans and the California Dream (1973), Inventing the Dream (1985), Material Dreams (1990), and Endangered Dreams (1996). His latest work in this series is graced with his customary command of social and cultural history, but the subtitle is slightly misleading. Except for his chapter on the European émigrés who came to Los Angeles in the 1930’s, there is little sense of the state actually entering the 1940’s. Rather, each chapter backs up the book to (usually) the turn of the century and shows how California turned...
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