Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003 - Softcover

Starr, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679740724 ISBN 13: 9780679740728

Publisher: Vintage, 2006

Synopsis

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 most nations and mirrors the economic state of the country; to a political landscape so roiled that a Governor can be recalled scant months after his re-election and replaced by a Hollywood action star. This is a book that is sweeping in scope, intimate in detail and altogether fascinated with the splendor of California.

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Review:

"Vivid, precise, and astute. . . . Starr's cultural range has always been broad and his grasp sure. Most important, he's able to put tastes and ways of life in historical context."-Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Kevin Starr is nothing short of the John Muir of our times. . . . [He] is utterly fascinated by California and how it has evolved." -Los Angeles Times

"Starr brings his magnificent, multivolume series Americans and the California Dream, the product of a quarter-century of work up to the present. An unfailingly interesting, highly readable contribution to Starr's grand series." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Extraordinary. . . . Sweeping, deeply personal and insightful"-Tucson Gazette

About the Author:

Kevin Starr is University Professor of History at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. From 1994 to 2004, he served as the state librarian for California. His writing has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and gold and silver medals from the Commonwealth Club of California. He divides his time between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0679740724
• ISBN 13: 9780679740728
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 800