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ISBN10: 0195157974, ISBN13: 9780195157970, [publisher: Oxford University Press, USA] Softcover Book is in NEW condition. Satisfaction Guaranteed! Fast Customer Service!! [Suffolk, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2002]
Paperback / softback. New. This text shows how Californians rebounded from the Great Depression to emerge in the 1930s into what is now known as "the good life." The author illustrates the ways this prospered in California - in film, fiction, leisure, and architecture. ISBN 0195157974 9780195157970 [GB]
OUP USA 11/21/2002 12: 00: 00 AM Softcover PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
Oxford University Press, USA 2002 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 496 p. Contains: Unspecified. Americans and the California Dream.
OUP USA 11/21/2002 12: 00: 00 AM Softcover PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
ISBN10: 0195157974, ISBN13: 9780195157970, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. Motels, home trailers, drive-ins, barbecues, beach life and surfing, sports from polo and tennis and golf to mountain climbing and skiing, "sportswear" (a word coined at the time), and sun suits were all a part of the good life--perhaps California's most distinctive influence of the 1930s. In The Dream Endures, Kevin Starr shows how the good life prospered in California--inpursuits such as film, fiction, leisure, and architecture--and helped to define American culture and society then and for years to come.Starr previously chronicled how Californians absorbed the thousandnatural shocks of the Great Depression--unemployment, strikes, Communist agitation, reactionary conspiracies--in Endangered Dreams, the fourth volume of his classic history of California. In The Dream Endures, Starr reveals the other side of the picture, examining the newly important places where the good life flourished, like Los Angeles (where Hollywood lived), Palm Springs (where Hollywood vacationed), San Diego (where the Navy went), the California Institute of Technologyin Pasadena (where Einstein went and changed his view of the universe), and college towns like Berkeley. We read about the rich urban life of San Francisco and Los Angeles, and in newly important communities like ...
ISBN10: 0195157974, ISBN13: 9780195157970, [publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR] Softcover Special order direct from the distributor [Victoria, BC, Canada] [Publication Year: 2002]
Oxford University Press, Date: 2002-11-28. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2002. Oxford University Press ISBN 0195157974 9780195157970 [US]
ISBN10: 0195157974, ISBN13: 9780195157970, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover [DH, SE, Spain] [Publication Year: 2002]
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