
Endangered Dreams
The Great Depression in California
Kevin Starr(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 7. January 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-19-511802-5 (ISBN)
Description
In Endangered Dreams, Kevin Starr paints a portrait of California during the Great Depression that is both detailed and panoramic, offering a vivid look at the personalities and events that shaped a decade of explosive tension. Out of a shattered decade of economic and social dislocation, he constructs a coherent whole and a mirror for understanding our own time.
Reviews / Votes
Endangered Dreams will be valuable for teachers and advanced students for the wealth of detail Starr provides and for the pleasure of his ability to tell a compelling story * American Studies Today * Starr describes the radicals brilliantly ... His description of the 1934 San Francisco maritime strike is one of the best ever written * American Studies Today *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
50 Fotos bzw. Rasterbilder
50 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
652 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-511802-5 (9780195118025)
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Book
05/1996
Oxford University Press Inc
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E-Book
01/1996
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€7.99
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E-Book
01/1996
OUP eBook
€7.99
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Person
Kevin Starr is State Librarian of California, contributing editor of the Los Angeles Times, and a member of the faculty at the University of Southern California. He is the author of a number of books, including Americans and the California Dream, Inventing the Dream, and Material Dreams. He lives in San Francisco.
Author
Adjunct Professor of HistoryAdjunct Professor of History, University of San Francisco