Suburban assumptions : San Fernando: homes and happiness in residential subdivisions
Designs for the good life: Modernism, Tiki, Ranch
Urban Perspectives : Urban expectations: San Diego leverages itself into big-city status
Baghdad by the bay: Herb Caen's San Francisco
The cardinal, the chief, Walter O'Malley, and Buff Chandler: redefining the City of Angels
Downsides and dividends: Los Angeles as supercity
Politics and public works : Warren, Nixon, Knight, Knowland: the demise of Republican centrism
Cold war campus: the University of California and other secret places
Freeways to the future: an epic of construction on behalf of the automobile
Mare Nostrum: the state water project
Art and life : Provincials, Baghdaders, and beats: literary San Francisco in the 1950s
Big Sur: the search for alternative value
Silent generation: coming of age on the coast of dreams
Brubeck! Jazz goes to college
Dissenting opinions : Largest state in the nation: a rebellion against growth and the destruction of environment
People of color: the beginning of the end for Jim Crow California
Cool, not cool: headlines and transitions.
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Golden dreams : California in an age of abundance, 1950-1963 by Kevin Starr. ISBN 9780195153774. Published by Oxford University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
