Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915

By Kevin Starr

Categories: History

The first volume (1973) of Kevin Starr's multi-volume history of California, tracing how Americans imagined and built the state from the Gold Rush to 1915.

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger: “I think any of Kevin Starr's books fit the bill. No one — no one — knows California like Kevin Starr. ... He is an incredible historian, and he writes in a way that always makes what he's saying interesting.”