ISBN: 9780195157970

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 t… Meer...

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--in pursuits 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 thousand natural 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 Technology in 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 Carmel and San Simeon, the home of William Randolph Hearst, where, each Thursday afternoon, automobiles packed with Hollywood celebrities would arrive from Southern California for the long weekend at Hearst Castle. The 1930s were the heyday of the Hollywood studios, and Starr brilliantly captures Hollywood films and the society that surrounded the studios. Starr offers an astute discussion of the European refugees who arrived in Hollywood during the period: prominent European film actors and artists and the creative refugees who were drawn to Hollywood and Southern California in these years--Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Man Ra ... Books, [PU: Oxford University Press]<

ISBN: 9780195157970

The fifth volume in Starr''s classic history of California, The Dream Endures shows how Californians rebounded from the Great Depression to emerge in the 1930s into what is now known as "… Meer...

The fifth volume in Starr''s classic history of California, The Dream Endures shows how Californians rebounded from the Great Depression to emerge in the 1930s into what is now known as ""the good life."" Starr illustrates the ways the good life prospered in California-in film, fiction, leisure, and architecture. Starr looks at the 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 the Navy went), the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (whereEinstein changed his view of the universe), and college towns like Berkeley.""In this, more than any other of Starr''s monumental California histories, we see the stirrings of uniqueness in the social and cultural evolution of California. Starr''s theme is relevant to all of America and the 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 the company of the best.""-Herbert Gold, Los Angeles Times Book Review | The Dream Endures by Kevin Starr Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > History > North American History > United States P10103, Kevin Starr<

2002, ISBN: 9780195157970

Oxford University Press, USA, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Illustrated, 512 Seiten, Publiziert: 2002-11-28T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 16 pp halftone plates, 0.8 kg, Verkaufs… Meer...

Oxford University Press, USA, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Illustrated, 512 Seiten, Publiziert: 2002-11-28T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 16 pp halftone plates, 0.8 kg, Verkaufsrang: 4513651, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, USA, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Zwischenkriegszeit, Epochen, Zweiter Weltkrieg, Moderne & Postmoderne, Militärgeschichte, Geschichte nach Themen, Sozialgeschichte, Kriege & Krisen, Depression, Psychische Krankheiten, Beschwerden & Krankheiten, Gesundheit & Medizin, Ratgeber, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Featured Categories, Englische Bücher, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_2301, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_0, Arborist Merchandising Root, Textbooks, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4901, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_0, Special Features Stores, Taschenbücher, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4201, Format: Illustriert, Oxford University Press, USA, 2002<