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  <title><![CDATA[Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s (Americans &amp; the California Dream)]]></title>
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  <default_description>In this book, the author is focusing on the making of Southern California, its design and material construction in the early and mid-twentieth century, with special reference to the visions and metaphors underlying such a process. This is also a book about design, construction, and identity, whether in aqueducts, architecture, gardens, city-plans, transportation systems, hotels, studio sets, symphony orchestras, or hydroelectric grids.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Starr hits his stride in this, his third in his epic series on the history of California. At last, Starr is free to focus on the subject that any reader can tell is &quot;near and dear&quot; to his heart: The emergence of Los Angeles as a full blown titan of a city. Although the subtitle to this boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4961829">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent local history of Southern California.  Both readable and dense, somehow.  Starr is indispensable for California history.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An exceedingly thorough exploration of California during the birth of the modern era.]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Family members curious about an outsider's look at our ancestor, Paul Jordan-Smith]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kevin Starr's California history books are easy and rather fun to read.  He takes the pain out of digesting history, to the point of almost making it &quot;pop&quot; or &quot;lite&quot;.  In spite of a lengthly list of references, he has some glaring errors in this book, in particular in his fairly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15166266">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this entire series, and only stopped reading this midway because I had renewed it too many times and had to return it to the Library.  I'll be checking it out again soon to finish.  If only I were a faster reader or could afford to buy this whole series.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Should be required reading for every Californian (and for those who love the state).  See Starr's other works in this series.]]></body>
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