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

The State Librarian of California presents the sixth volume in "Americans and the California Dream, " one of the great ongoing works of American cultural histor

The American Dream and Dreams Deferred: A Dialectical Fairy Tale shows how rival interpretations of the Dream reveal the dialectical tensions therein. Exploring

Historian Hurewitz brings to life a vibrant and all-but-forgotten milieu of artists, leftists, and gay men and women whose story played out over the first half

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