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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,... read more

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IN a three-part series published in Westways in the fall of 1936, Los Angeles journalist Farnsworth Crowder assessed the California temperament as a matter of sunshine, physicality, and the pleasure principle.

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  1. Kevin Starr (Author)
 

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