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What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. In The Dream Endures, Kevin Starr shows how the good life prospered in California-in pursuits such as film, fiction, leisure, and architecture-and helped to define American culture and society then and for years to come. The 1930s were the heyday of the Hollywood studios, and Starr brilliantly captures Hollywood films and the society that surrounded the studios. Starr offers an astute discussion of the European refugees who arrived in Hollywood during the period: prominent European film actors and artists and the creative refugees who were drawn to Hollywood and Southern California in these years-Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Man Ray, Bertolt Brecht, Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Mann, and Franz Werfel. Starr gives a fascinating account of how many of them attempted to recreate their European world in California and how others, like Samuel Goldwyn, provided stories and dreams for their adopted nation. Starr reserves his greatest attention and most memorable writing for San Francisco. For Starr, despite the city's beauty and commercial importance, San Francisco's most important achievement was the sense of well-being it conferred on its citizens. It was a city that "magically belonged to everyone." Whether discussing photographers like Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, "hardboiled fiction" writers, or the new breed of female star-Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Carole Lombard, and the improbable Mae West-The Dream Endures is a brilliant social and cultural history.
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VG+/F. 0195100794. New, unused book. Black remainder marks to foot of textblock, no other flaws. Dustjacket in archival Brodart protector.; Gray boards. Notes. Bibliographical Essay. Index.; Remainder; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 480 pages; From the jacket: What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during te 1930s. Motels, home trailers, drive-ins, barbecues, beach life and surfing, sports from polo and tennis and golf to mountain climbing and skiing, "sportswear" (a word coined at the time), and sun suitswere all a part of the good life-perhaps California's most distinctive influence of the 1930s. In The Dream Endures, Kevin Starr shows how te good life prospered in California-in pursuits such as film, fiction, leisure, and architecture-and helped to define American culture and society then and for years to come. The author is the State Librarian of California and a faculty member at the University of Southern California.