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1.		Los Angeles, Portrait of a City from TASCHEN America Llc Price: $44.10 Customer Review: At last, the city at the end of the rainbow gets the Taschen treatment: a large, chunky, 570 page, visual history. This is more than just an ordinary picture book though because so many of the photos, after the Thirties, have been taken by named photographers (there are biographies of thirty-nine of... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 (Americans and the California Dream) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $21.10 Customer Review: Keven Starr's Golden Dreams suffers from the fault any nonfiction historical series seems to have. Mr. Starr forgets he has already told the story before, and we read deja vu all over again. Starr's account of the 60's does not sufficiently describe the counterculture. That can be explained by his... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Twentieth Century Classics) from Penguin Classics Price: $5.95 Customer Review: I discovered this book through a recommendation from Amazon when I was ordering several turn-of-the 20th century novels. Written in 1899, by a young author who died in 1902 at the age of 32, the setting is San Francisco, the characters are flawed, and the story is filled with strong brutish images... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		California: A History (Modern Library Chronicles) from Modern Library Price: $6.19 Customer Review: I am a native Californian, live in Silicon Valley, and love the Golden State. I have seen the storied parts of Europe - Provence, Tuscany, Sicily - and yes, Venice,, Rome and Paris. I also know the U.S. quite well - there is no comparison, the San Francisco Bay Area, Yosemite, La Jolla, Big Sur, Mt.... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.	[no image]	The Octopus: A Story of California (Penguin Classic) from Penguin Classics Price: $7.00 Customer Review: 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful: The Octopus, a symbol of catastrophic and inexorable evil, January 13, 2002 By Richard W. Amero (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: The Octopus: A Story of California (Twentieth Century Classics) (v.... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		Coast of Dreams from Vintage Price: $10.38 Customer Review: This is a big book -- 635 pages -- on a big subject, California from 1990 to 2003. Most authors, facing such a huge subject, would focus on a few areas about which they have special knowledge. Not Kevin Starr. His speciality is knowing absolutely everything about California, and he exceeds himself... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.		Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950 (Americans and the California Dream) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $14.79 Customer Review: Any history book by Kevin Starr is worth reading. I'm working my way through all of them. He is the greatest California historian ever!	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.	[no image]	Americans and the California Dream 1850-1915 from Peregrine Smith Customer Review: Like all Keven Starr's books on California history and culture, this one is first rate and is helps to sort out the reality of that unique mixture of hope, seductive reality and occasional disappointment that characterize the California experience.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.		Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s (Americans & the California Dream) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $27.69 Customer Review: Very well written. A must for those interested in early California history. Very accurate in fact.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era (Americans & the California Dream) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $11.20 Customer Review: This is the second volume in Kevin Starr's ongoing cultural history of California. It focuses the ideas of California - as an Eden, a health center, a place to get rich quick and leave, and all the others - and shows how they emerged, grew, interacted with each other and with reality and how they... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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