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Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s - Starr, Kevin
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The third of Kevin Starr's monumental studies of the origins and development of the California dream covers the decade, which perhaps glittered the most brightly in the history of the Golden State - the 1920s. This was the era of colourful, larger-than-life individuals - from movie stars to evangelists to grandiose town planners; the era of Valentino, as well as that of William Ellsworth Smyth, tireless crusader for the irrigation of the desert. It was also the period in which the characteristics of Los Angeles' vital ...

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Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s 1991, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195072600

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Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s 1990, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195044874

Hardcover