Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950

by Kevin Starr

Book Overview

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. Now, in Embattled Dreams, the sixth volume in this monumental work, Starr looks at 1940s California, the war years and their aftermath.
California in the years surrounding World War II was a time of sweeping change, drama and intrigue, heroism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195124375
• ISBN13: 9780195124378
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.6" x 6.4"