Golden Dreams
Title | Golden Dreams PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Starr |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 576 |
Release | 2011-09-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0199924309 |
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. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar period--1950 to 1963--when the California we know today first burst into prominence. Starr brilliantly illuminates the dominant economic, social, and cultural forces in California in these pivotal years. In a powerful blend of telling events, colorful personalities, and insightful analyses, Starr examines such issues as the overnight creation of the postwar California suburb, the rise of Los Angeles as Super City, the reluctant emergence of San Diego as one of the largest cities in the nation, and the decline of political centrism. He explores the Silent Generation and the emergent Boomer youth cult, the Beats and the Hollywood "Rat Pack," the pervasive influence of Zen Buddhism and other Asian traditions in art and design, the rise of the University of California and the emergence of California itself as a utopia of higher education, the cooling of West Coast jazz, freeway and water projects of heroic magnitude, outdoor life and the beginnings of the environmental movement. More broadly, he shows how California not only became the most populous state in the Union, but in fact evolved into a mega-state en route to becoming the global commonwealth it is today. Golden Dreams continues an epic series that has been widely recognized for its signal contribution to the history of American culture in California. It is a book that transcends its stated subject to offer a wealth of insight into the growth of the Sun Belt and the West and indeed the dramatic transformation of America itself in these pivotal years following the Second World War.
Golden Dream
Title | Golden Dream PDF eBook |
Author | Ardath Mayhar |
Publisher | Ace Books |
Total Pages | 269 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Monsters |
ISBN | 9780441297269 |
The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio
Title | The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio PDF eBook |
Author | Lloyd Alexander |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2007-08-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1429986735 |
A beautiful Kirkassi girl, cold-eyed villains and smiling killers, a bazaar merchant peddling slightly used dreams—could any young adventurer ask for more? Not Carlo Chuchio, who is seeking hidden treasure on the legendary Road of Golden Dreams. With Baksheesh, the world's worst camel-puller, Carlo leads a caravan through the realm of Keshavar. Robbed of all but his underdrawers, mistaken for a mighty warrior and then for a crown prince, Carlo risks his life for a prize that may not even exist. Newbery medalist Lloyd Alexander weaves a glorious tale of adventure, love, and the treasures that matter most. The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
The Golden Dream
Title | The Golden Dream PDF eBook |
Author | Gerry Faust |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 584 |
Release | 2012-11-13 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1613213611 |
Gerry Faust won more hearts than games. He came to Notre Dame as the high school coach from Cincinnati's Moeller High School, such a perfect fit for Notre Dame that it seemed almost too good to be true. It was. Faust admits his mistakes, which include the manner in which he put together his first coaching staff, changing Notre Dame's offense, even feeling sorry for himself. He explains how he could beat Southern Cal, but not Air Force and Purdue. An optimist to the end, Faust took on, if anything, an even greater challenge when he left Notre Dame. He became coach at the University of Akron, a program where, unlike at Notre Dame, not everyone wanted him to succeed.
The Golden Dream
Title | The Golden Dream PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Stagg |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Total Pages | 299 |
Release | 2010-04-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1770705317 |
In the early twentieth century a movement flourished in the Midwestern states bordering the Great Lakes to champion the St. Lawrence route as the answer to easily transporting goods in and out of the centre of the continent. Internal rivalries in the United States and Canada held back the project for fifty years until Canada suddenly decided to build a seaway alone, pressuring the American Congress to co-operate. The building of the Seaway and its completion in 1959, involved engineering on an unprecedented scale and significant human dislocation. During construction, communities along the Great Lakes planned for increased prosperity, but changes in transportation, aging infrastructure, and environmental problems have mean that "the Golden Dream" has not been fully realized, even today. This popular history chronicles the rise of one of the great engineering projects in Canadian history and its controversial impact on the people living along the St. Lawrence River.
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller
Title | The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller PDF eBook |
Author | Felix Fontaine |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Total Pages | 283 |
Release | 2022-09-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller" by Felix Fontaine. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Golden Dream
Title | Golden Dream PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Jerina |
Publisher | HarperPrism |
Total Pages | 468 |
Release | 1994-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780061082993 |