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Ladataan... Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920sTekijä: Kevin Starr
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. NA Kevin Starr is the great contemporary historian on the subject of California, and in this book, he explores the creation of Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. Los Angeles in particular is a city that made itself by sheer will and effort, irrigating the desert with dazzling foresight, plotting its city, drilling oil, advertising itself as a place where dreams come true. Mind you, this is not a creative nonfiction book--it is very thorough, and at times, rather dry. It's incredibly well-written and a boon for any researcher. As I was looking on material on the city's development in the 1920s and Hollywood, I skimmed through parts of the book. The breadth of material is impressive. Starr literally starts from the ground up, with the issue of water, and goes on to explore oil, the influx of Midwestern "Folks," industry, architecture, the arts and literature, and the growth of Santa Barbara and how it is much in contrast to LA. There's almost nothing on the central valley or central coast. näyttää 3/3 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Kuuluu näihin sarjoihinAmericans and the California Dream (Book 3)
Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream and indeed one of the finest narrative historians writing today on any subject. The first two installments of his monumental cultural history, "Americans and the California Dream," have been hailed as "mature, well-proportioned and marvelously diverse (and diverting)" (The New York Times Book Review) and "rich in details and alive with interesting, and sometimes incredible people" (Los Angeles Times). Now, in Material Dreams, Starr turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920s, when some two million Americans migrated to California, the vast majority settling in or around Los Angeles. In a lively and eminently readable narrative, Starr reveals how Los Angeles arose almost defiantly on a site lacking many of the advantages required for urban development, creating itself out of sheer will, the Great Gatsby of American cities. He describes how William Ellsworth Smyth, the Peter the Hermit of the Irrigation Crusade, the self-educated, Irish engineer William Mulholland (who built the main aquaducts to Los Angeles), and George Chaffey (who diverted the Colorado River, transforming desert into the lush Imperial Valley) brought life-supporting water to the arid South. He examines the discovery of oil, the boosters and land developers, the evangelists (such as Bob Shuler, the Methodist Savanarola of Los Angeles, and Aimee Semple McPherson), and countless other colorful figures of the period. There are also fascinating sections on the city's architecture the impact of the automobile on city planning, the Hollywood film community, the L.A. literati, and much more. By the end of the decade, Los Angeles had tripled in population and become the fifth largest city in the nation. In Material Dreams, Starr captures this explosive growth in a narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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