Books written by Kevin Starr

Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915

An older couple, the Hales (based upon Charmian London's aunt and uncle), complete Billy and Saxon's induction into the good life. The Hales exude the spirit of true California culture. They live in a wood and stone bungalow, ...
The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s

The Hales had lost two children before George was born , and George had been weak and sickly as a child . This would suggest one line of explanation : grateful parents , a powerful and highly endowed father especially , clearing a ...
Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s

... Parks, Boulevards and Playgrounds (1910), and Citizens' Committee on Parks, Playgrounds and Beaches, Parks, Playgrounds and Beaches for the Los Angeles and Region (1930). Regarding the City Hall, see George P. Hales, ...
Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950

3 1942 * Garrison State A PRIL 1942 found Major General George Smith Patton Jr. training his men in the Desert Training ... for Patton had his critics ) the assignment of Major General George S. Patton Jr. , currently stationed in Fort ...
Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California

S. Parker Frisselle , manager of the University of California - owned Kearney Vineyard in Fresno County , served as ... Succeeding Frisselle as president in 1936 was another member of the board of directors , Walter Garrison , a Lodi ...
California: A History

WAR AND PRADE Garrison State and Suburban Groupth Z/ Aircraft worker, Los Angeles, late 1944 REGIONAL HISTORY COLLECTION S: as an act of war in 1846, governed by. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALL FOR NIA. WAR AND PEACE: Garrison State and ...
Coast of Dreams

Garrison State Tony Perry, “San Diego Mood Tense as Military Gears Up,” LAT, 7 Oct. 2001. Tim Reiterman, “Disarming Biological Weapons.“ I.»l'II 22 Oct. 2001. Peter Pae, “From Dune Buggy to C ornbat Vehicle,” L-\T, 24 Nov. 2001.
Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era

... Santa Anita Rancho (1916); William W. Morrow, Spanish and Mexican Private Land Grants (1923); Myrtle Garrison, ... List of Spanish Concessions and Mexican Grants (1956); Ruth Waldo Newhall, The Newhall Ranch (1958); Harold S. Chase, ...
Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950

The State Librarian of California presents the sixth volume in "Americans and the California Dream, " one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history. 38 halftones.
Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920's

There are also fascinating sections on the city's architecture (such as the remarkably innovative Bradbury Building and its eccentric, neophyte designer, George Wyman), the impact of the automobile on city planning, the great antiquarian ...
Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963

Explores the social, cultural, and economic history of California from 1950 through 1963, and discusses such topics as demography, water, freeways, development in the major cities and suburban areas, race relations, and more.
Continental Achievement: Roman Catholics in the United States - Revolution and Early Republic

... Jean Wanton and François Hobdai (most likely French Canadians); two Irish (Irlandais) priests, Abbé Dowd and Capuchin Father Maurice (whose real name was Charles Whelan); secular priest John Machunq (McKeon), perhaps Irish as well; ...
Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era

... Comedy (1969); Jack Spears, Hollywood: The Golden Era (1971); Anthony Slide, Early American Cinema (1970) and Aspects of American Film History Prior to 1920 (1978); and Kevin Brownlow and John Kobal, Hollywood: The Pioneers (1979).
The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s

Monsignor Ramm was a brilliant preacher, as was the Jesuit Dennis Kavanagh of St. Ignatius Church, a native San Franciscan who had entered the Society of Jesus at the tender age of fifteen. When Kavanagh preached the Three Hours ...
Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915

The turn-of-the-century period saw a variety of planning ventures, ranging from civic drives for improvement to more fanciful enterprises like Joaquin Miller's development of his property in the Oakland Hills.
Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California

Sheriff Miller personally gave newly registered workers a welcoming pep talk, telling them that he himself had once been a fruit worker and that, since he was their friend, he wanted them not to agitate when they had problems, ...
Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003

... “Silicon Valley Tunes In to Cable TV." SFCh, 11 Dec. 1997. Jonathan Marshall, “Wired for the Future.” SFCh. 29 Jan. 1998. Kara Swisher, “Oh, What a Tangled Web Silicon Valley Moguls Weave.” WSJ. 5 Mar. 1998. Greg Miller ...
The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s

Regarding San Diego and La Jolla, Max Carlton Miller has written I Cover the Waterfront (1932), Harbor of the Sun (1940), It Must Be the Climate (1941), and The Town with the Funny Name (1948). See also Miller's two San Diego novels, ...
California: A History

The return of Ambrose Bierce and poet Joaquín Miller from England offered a countervailing statement to the departure of Twain and Harte, for each of these writers was, in Royce's term, a High Provincial to the core and would do his ...
Continental Achievement: Roman Catholics in the United States - Revolution and the Early Republic

... 108, 109, 130 Russia, 88, 142, 273–74, 275–76, 278 Ryan, Elizabeth, 70 Ryan, Michael, 70 Ryan, Thomas, 148 Saint Augustine's, Philadelphia, 146 St. Clair, Arthur, 54, 95 Wayne, Anthony, 46, 50, 70, 71, 80–81, 114, 140, 141, ...