Name/Title
Golden Dreams: California in an age of abundance 1950-1963Entry/Object ID
2011.25.2Description
This volume concludes Starr's unprecedented seven-volume history of a single American state. While out of chronological order (Starr covered the period 1990–2003 in Coast of Dreams ) and often ranging far beyond the book's stated dates, this final volume is of the same high quality as the previous ones: spirited in style, comprehensive and long. Starr covers a broad range of subjects: demography, water, freeways, politics, culture, the state's major cities, race relations. As in all other volumes, he hangs his story on sketches of many of California's often larger-than-life individuals, among them Buffy Chandler, Cardinal McIntyre, Pat Brown, Dave Brubeck, Clark Kerr, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Herb Caen.
564 pagesCollection
BooksAcquisition
Accession
2011.25Source or Donor
PurchaseAcquisition Method
GiftLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
BookNomenclature Sub-Class
Other DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Baby boom generation, Cars, FreewaysSearch Terms
Art Deco, Baby boom generation, Cars, Cold War, Freeways, Modernism, Napa, World War IIBook Details
Author
Starr, KevinDate Published
2009Call No.
979.4053 StarrNotes
Spine Label: 979.4053
StarrCreate Date
March 22, 2011Update Date
July 9, 2026