The dream endures: California enters the 1940s

Abstract

The fifth volume in Starr's classic history of California, The Dream Endures shows how Californians rebounded from Great Depression to emerge in 1930s into what is now known as the good life. Starr illustrates ways good life prospered in California-in film, fiction, leisure, and architecture. Starr looks at newly important places where Californians lived out this sunny lifestyle: areas like Los Angeles (where Hollywood lived), Palm Springs (where Hollywood vacationed), San Diego (where Navy went), California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (where Einstein changed his view of universe), and college towns like Berkeley. In this, more than any other of Starr's monumental California histories, we see stirrings of uniqueness in social and cultural evolution of California. Starr's theme is relevant to all of America and national destiny.-Neil Morgan, San Diego Union-Tribune Enormously sensitive and moving. Social and cultural history doesn't get any better.-San Francisco Chronicle In his monumental continuing study of California, Kevin Starr belongs in company of best.-Herbert Gold, Los Angeles Times Book Review

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