Golden Dreams : California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963.

By:

Starr, Kevin

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Americans and the California DreamPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (1262 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780199924301
0199924309
9780199923144
0199923140
0195153774
9780195153774
0199832498
9780199832491

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Golden Dreams : California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963.DDC classification:

979.4/053 979.4053

LOC classification:

F866.2 .S733 2009

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.