Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915

"Highly readable....The book is full of surprises, it is constantly challenging....A fine performance."--Pacific Historical Review "[Starr] is bringing much to Western social and literary history."--American Historical Review "One devil of a fine book, a book only a native Californian could write...about the Inner Life of California, the psychic landscape that emerges from the works and ways of her writers, both native and self-adopted. The result is a mature, well-proportioned and marvelously diverse (and diverting) study."--The New York Times Book Review "A very important book."--Joseph H. Krause, California State University, Long Beach "Indispensable...Starr's book does for California what Henry Nash Smith's 'Virgin Land' did for the opening of the West: it demonstrates how idea, myth, misconception and hope shaped and often distorted a developing society."--Los Angeles TimesStarr, Kevin is the author of 'Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915' with ISBN 9780195016444 and ISBN 0195016440.