Kevin Starr
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kevin Owen Starr was an American historian and California's state librarian, best known for his multi-volume series on the history of California, collectively called "Americans and the California Dream."
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- Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era (1985) (147)
- Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s (1990) (91)
- Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (1973) (77)
- California : a history (2005) (64)
- Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California (1996) (60)
- Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950 (2002) (41)
- Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles (2005) (41)
- Desert Passages: Encounters with the American Deserts (1985) (33)
- The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s (1996) (33)
- Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 (2009) (30)
- Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003 (2004) (24)
- Rooted in barbarous soil : people, culture, and community in Gold Rush California (2002) (18)
- A Literary History of the American West (1988) (12)
- Coast of dreams : a history of contemporary California (2006) (5)
- The Gold Rush and the California Dream (1998) (5)
- Global California: Rising to the Cosmopolitan Challenge (2009) (4)
- Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge (2010) (4)
- The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself (2006) (4)
- Rooted in Barbarous Soil: An Introduction to Gold Rush Society and Culture (2000) (4)
- Writing the History of the American West (1991) (2)
- The development of a present weather sensor for automated surface observing systems (1989) (2)
- Asset optimization through data variation analysis (2001) (1)
- Ending the cycle-turning crisis into opportunity in Afghanistan: humanitarian aid efforts can help create community self-reliance. (2002) (1)
- California’s Channel Islands: A History . By Frederic Caire Chiles. (2016) (1)
- Judge John T. Noonan, Jr. A Brief Biography (1994) (1)
- Watering the Land: The Colorado River Project (1993) (1)
- Keeping the Promise: Recommendations for Effective Library Service to African Americans. (1996) (1)
- Making a Better World (2017) (1)
- Painterly Poet, Poetic Painter: The Dual Art of Maynard Dixon (1977) (1)
- Reflections In/On/Of a Golden State@@@Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915@@@A Guide to Architecture in San Francisco and Northern California@@@Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies@@@Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America (1976) (0)
- San Francisco: An Inquiry from the Point of View of the Public Library. (1975) (0)
- Good Life in Hard Times: San Francisco’s 20’s and 30’s by Jerry Flamm (review) (2017) (0)
- Los Angeles' Old Plaza (2016) (0)
- A Boom Interview (2016) (0)
- O California: Kevin Starr's Unfinished Symphony@@@Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915. (1974) (0)
- ANANSI THE SPIDER-MAN : A WEST AFRICAN TRICKSTER IN THE WEST INDIES (2011) (0)
- Land's End (1979) (0)
- South of Market and Bunker Hill: An Introduction to Neighborhood Histories by Anne B. Bloomfield and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Gail Sansbury (1995) (0)
- Riches For All: The California Gold Rush and the World (review) (2004) (0)
- Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920. By David Vaught. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 280 pp. Illustrations, index, and notes. Cloth, $38. ISBN 0-801-86221-3 (2000) (0)
- California Statewide Plan for Use of Library Services & Technology Act Funds, 2002/03-2006/07. (2002) (0)
- Photosynthetic Rates of Ilex crenata Thunb. 'Helleri' during Propagation by Michael C. Dupras thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE APPROVED: (2020) (0)
- The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal during the Roaring Twenties Jules Tygiel (1999) (0)
- TrusteeKit for Library (1998) (0)
- Inventing California@@@Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era.@@@Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915. (1985) (0)
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