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Article: Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003.(Book review)
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- Journal of Cultural Geography
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- March 22, 2006
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2006 JCG Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003. By Kevin Starr. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Acknowledgments, notes, sources and index, xiii+765 pp. $35.00 hardback. ISBN: 0-679-41288-3.
Coast of Dreams, the seventh book in former California State Librarian Kevin Starr's outstanding "America and the California Dream" history series, is a radical departure from the series in two significant ways. First, it is not a history but a presentation of recent and current events--a 765-page (including notes and references) torrent of only partly digested, sometimes contradictory, yet in sum revealing information about the social, political, economic, cultural and ...
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