Article: Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003.(Book review)

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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