Golden Dreams : : California in an age of Abundance, 1950-1963
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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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Americans and the California dream.
PUBLISHED
New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: xi, 564 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780195153774
0195153774
SUBJECTS
California -- History -- 1950-
California -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
California -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.