Material Dreams —— Southern California through the 1920s

----- 物质梦想：南加州直到20世纪20年代

ISBN: 9780195044874 出版年：1990 页码：492 Starr, Kevin Oxford University Press

The third of Kevin Starr's monumental studies of the origins and development of the California dream covers the decade, which perhaps glittered the most brightly in the history of the Golden State - the 1920s. This was the era of colourful, larger-than-life individuals - from movie stars to evangelists to grandiose town planners; the era of Valentino, as well as that of William Ellsworth Smyth, tireless crusader for the irrigation of the desert. It was also the period in which the characteristics of Los Angeles' vital culture were established.