The dream endures : California enters the 1940s / Kevin Starr.
Material type: TextSeries: Starr, Kevin. Americans and the California dream ; Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.Description: xii, 480 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0195100794 (acid-free paper)
- 9780195100792 (acid-free paper)
- F866 .S78 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-427) and index.
I. The search for the good life : Good times on the coast: affluence and the anti-Depression -- Arcadian shores: college towns and other rusticated enclaves -- II. Urban and suburban perspectives : Unto the stars themselves: astronomy and the Pasadena perspective -- Gibraltar of the Pacific: San Diego joins the Navy -- One man's family: localism and well-being in pre-war -- Pershing Square: Los Angeles through the 1930s -- III. Refractions : An all-seeing eye: Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and the landscape of California -- Angel's flight: social realism comes to California art -- Dreaming through the disaster: Hollywood battles the Depression ; The boys and girls in the back room: minimalism and the California novel -- IV. War and rumors of war : War and peace and the survival of the species: Californians contemplate a world on the verge of self-destruction -- Ich bin ein Südkalifornier: life and art among the emigrés -- From catastrophe to covenant: Jews and Christians in exile together.