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The Dream Endures

California Enters The 1940s

The Dream Endures( )
Author: Starr, Kevin
Series title:Americans and the California Dream Ser.
ISBN:978-0-19-510079-2
Publication Date:May 1997
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $65.00
Book Description:

In this fifth volume of Starr's history of California life and culture, the focus is on the positive aspects of California life during the 1930s -- especially how the state developed a style of life that would greatly influence American society as a whole.

Book Details
Pages:492
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Customs & Traditions
Business & Economics / Economic History
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.474 x 9.516 x 1.521 Inches
Book Weight:1.967 Pounds
Author Biography
Starr, Kevin (Author)
Kevin Starr was born in San Francisco, California on September 3, 1940. He received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of San Francisco in 1962. After serving two years in the Army in West Germany, he received a master's degree in 1965 and a PhD in English and American literature in 1969 from Harvard University. He returned to San Francisco in 1973 and served as an aide and speechwriter to Mayor Joseph Alioto. After being appointed city librarian, he received a master's degree in library science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1974. He wrote a column for The San Francisco Examiner and was appointed a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Southern California in 1989. In 1994, Governor Pete Wilson named him state librarian, a post he held for 10 years.

He wrote numerous book about the history of California including the eight-volume California Dream series, California, Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge, and Continental Ambitions: Roman Catholics in North America, the Colonial Experience. In 2006, he received the National Humanities Medal for his work as a scholar and historian from President George W. Bush. He died from a heart attack on January 14, 2017 at the age of 76.

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