TY  - BOOK
AU  - Starr,Kevin
TI  - Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963
T2  - Americans and the California Dream
SN  - 9780199924301
AV  - F866.2 .S733 2009 
U1  - 979.4/053979.4053 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press, USA
KW  - California
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History
KW  - 1950-
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Regions & Countries
KW  - Americas
KW  - History & Archaeology
KW  - United States Local History
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - United States
KW  - State & Local
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Economic history
KW  - fast
KW  - Californie
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Conditions économiques
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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