Series statement from author's Material dreams. Bibliography: p. 460-479.

In Material Dreams, Starr turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920s, when some two million Americans migrated to Califor

This volume deals with the years of World War II and after. In the 1940s California changed from a regional centre into the dominant economic, social and cultur

Kevin Starr's portrait of California during the Great Depression is both detailed and panoramic. The study offers a vivid look at the personalities and events t

A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream