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Bill Pickelhaupt, in this reprint of a classic, tells the true story of shanghaiing - kidnapping men for a voyage at sea after they were slipped drugged liquor - and the politicians who let it happen in San Francisco for over sixty years. Includes victims' first-hand accounts and 50 photographs and drawings.

Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream. In Material Dreams, he turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920's, when some two million Americans migrated to California, the vast majority settling in or around Los Angeles.

What is now called "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. In "The Dream Endures", an excellent companion volume to his "Endangered Dreams", Kevin Starr shows how the good life helped to define American culture and society then and for years to come. 40 halftones.

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Written by a native San Franciscan who combines a moving and expressive style with the objective eye of the scholar, Professor Starr's chronicle will appeal to all those who relish American history set forth in vivid detail and enriched with insight.

In Endangered Dreams, Starr begins with the rise of radicalism on the Pacific Coast, which erupted when the Great Depression swept over California in the 1930s. Starr captures the triumphs and tumult of the great agricultural strikes in the Imperial Valley, the San Joaquin Valley, Stockton, and Salinas, identifying the crucial role played by Communist organizers, he also shows how, after some successes, the Communists disbanded their unions on...

In capturing the the powerful forces that swept the state of California in the 1930s, Kevin Starr weaves an insightful analysis into his narrative fabric. Out of a shattered decade of economic and social dislocation, he constructs a coherent whole and a mirror for understanding our own time. 50 photos.

The sixth volume in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history--the monumental Americans and the California Dream series--"Embattled Dreams is a peerless work of cultural history following California i n the years surrounding World War II. During the 1940s California ascended to a new, more powerful role in the nation. Starr describes the vast expansion of the war industry and California's role as the "arsenal of democracy" (e...

A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar period-1950 to 1963-when the California we know today first burst into prominence. Starr brilliantly illuminates the dominant economic, social, and cultural forces in California in these pivo...

The fifth volume in Starr's classic history of California shows how the people rebounded from the Great Depression to emerge in the 1930s into what is now known as "the good life." Illustrations.

With the exception of certain deliberate excursions to the north, this narrative is more than half concerned with the rise of Southern California in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The focus remains, as usual, the imaginative and symbolic aspects of experience as the imagination impinges upon social and psychological realities and in turn transforms the materials of experience into the building blocks of identity.

Written by a native San Franciscan who combines a moving and expressive style with the objective eye of the scholar, Professor Starr's chronicle will appeal to all those who relish American history set forth in vivid detail and enriched with insight.

A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this new volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar period¿1950 to 1963¿when the California we know today first burst into prominence. In a powerful blend of telling events, colorful personalities, and insightful analyses, he brilliantly il...

From O.J. to Arnold Schwarzenegger, earthquakes to rolling blackouts, silicon valley to riots in the street, California state historian Kevin Starr has assembled the history of the Golden Gate State since 1990 to create a vivid snapshot of a state constantly on the edge of tomorrow. Coast of Dreams captures an extraordinary place, from its rich and exceptionally diverse palette of people, cultures and values, to its economy that is larger than...

In this definitive, one-volume history, the Golden State's greatest historian distills his incomparable knowledge into a single, comprehensive book that tells the epic story of America's most complex, dynamic, ever-changing state.

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A lyrical account of the building and significance of the Golden Gate Bridge, the quintessential image of California's breathtaking blend of nature and civilization, from an award-winning authority on California history.