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<p>What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 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 suits were all a part of the good life—perhaps California's most distinctive influence of the 1930s. In <b>The Dream Endures</b>, 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.<br> Starr previously chronicled how Californians absorbed the thousand natural shocks of the Great Depression—unemployment, strikes, Communist agitation, reactionary conspiracies—in <b>Endangered Dreams</b>, the fourth volume of his classic history of California. In <b>The Dream Endures</b>, Starr reveals the other side of the picture, examining the newly important places where the good life flourished, like Los Angeles (where Hollywood lived), Palm Springs (where Hollywood vacationed), San Diego (where the Navy went), the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (where Einstein went an

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Author

Kevin Starr

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195100792

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, American Studies, Humanities

Rating

4.09 / 5 (36 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14