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1.		California: A History (Modern Library Chronicles) from Modern Library Price: $10.17 Customer Review: Kevin Starr had quite a challenge in writing a one-volume history of 340 pages that isn't even small print. Naturally, he had time to give many fascinating topics barely a glance, and it's not from lack of knowledge, given his other works on California. Readers can easily quibble about their own... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		The Octopus: A Story of California (Twentieth Century Classics) from Penguin Classics Price: $13.60 Customer Review: The despot, the octopus, in Frank Norris's forceful novel is the Railroad Cy (RR), which monopolizes the transport of agricultural products and sucks the life out of the farmers: `He searched for the true romance and found grain rates and unjust freight tariffs.' More, the RR owns big chunks of the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California (Americans and the California Dream) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $22.45 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

4.	[no image]	McTEAGUE: A Story of San Francisco (Penguin Classics) from Penguin Classics Customer Review: An funny and tragic book. It shouldn't be neglected, it is part of the canon the way an american tragedy is. realism. humor. social observation. beautiful san fransisco, and then the deserts of cormac macathy, the treasure of the sierra madre and the wages of fear. highly recommended!	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $32.40 Customer Review: Starr's cultural history of California is more institutional history than anything else, which is not a bad thing if you like foundation studies. At the core of the book is the story of how enterprising and eccentric New Englanders attempted to tranfer their native civilization, with all its... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950 (Americans and the California Dream) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $19.95 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

7.		Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $30.60 Customer Review: I love Kevin Starr's books. His multi-volume history of California deserves a Nobel Prize (for Literature) in my opinion, but there is something unique about Kevin Starr that potential readers should know: His heart may be in California (he was born in San Francisco), but his razor sharp mind is... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		Coast of Dreams from Vintage Price: $14.00 Customer Review: So this was California, in the years 1990 to 2004. Having lived in Los Angeles during that time, I could readily relate to much of what Starr wrote, especially when he talked about this city. A long book, but you don't have to read it at one sitting. It's well suited to you leisurely reading... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.		Olive in California: History of an Immigrant Tree from Ten Speed Press Price: $24.70 Customer Review: This is an interesting and handsome history which focuses on the people who initiated and developed the olive oil and canned olive industry in California from pre Junipero Serra times into the 1990s. There are drawings and black and white photos, a chronology, a couple of lists (with comments) of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s (Americans and the California Dream) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $22.45 Customer Review: If you've read any of Dr. Starr's California histories, you've got the idea. Generally they're excellent. And if you've read SEVERAL of Dr. Starr's California histories, you'll undoubtedly notice that he has his favorite subjects: Colleges and universities, churches and institutional architecture,... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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