In this extraordinary book, Kevin Starr–widely acknowledged as the premier historian of California, the scope of whose scholarship the Atlantic Monthly has ca
This volume deals with the years of World War II and after. In the 1940s California changed from a regional centre into the dominant economic, social and cultur
From the bestselling author of Lulu’s Café Josie Slater has allowed the circumstances anchoring her in Sunset Cove to become a life sentence. Since her mothe
California, Wallace Stegner observed, is like the rest of the United States, only more so. Indeed, the Golden State has always seemed to be a place where the ho