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Kevin Starr (1940–2017)

Autor/a de California: A History

32+ obres 2,385 Membres 52 Ressenyes 2 preferits

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Kevin Starr was born in San Francisco, California on September 3, 1940. He received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of San Francisco in 1962. After serving two years in the Army in West Germany, he received a master's degree in 1965 and a PhD in English and American literature in mostra'n més 1969 from Harvard University. He returned to San Francisco in 1973 and served as an aide and speechwriter to Mayor Joseph Alioto. After being appointed city librarian, he received a master's degree in library science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1974. He wrote a column for The San Francisco Examiner and was appointed a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Southern California in 1989. In 1994, Governor Pete Wilson named him state librarian, a post he held for 10 years. He wrote numerous book about the history of California including the eight-volume California Dream series, California, Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge, and Continental Ambitions: Roman Catholics in North America, the Colonial Experience. In 2006, he received the National Humanities Medal for his work as a scholar and historian from President George W. Bush. He died from a heart attack on January 14, 2017 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

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Obres de Kevin Starr

California: A History (2005) 472 exemplars
Over California (1990) 29 exemplars
San Francisco (1995) 12 exemplars

Obres associades

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (1899) — Editor, algunes edicions1,497 exemplars
The Octopus: A Story of California (1901) — Introducció, algunes edicions962 exemplars
The Valley of the Moon (1913) — Pròleg, algunes edicions237 exemplars
California State Library Foundation Bulletin, Number 84, 2006 (2006) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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Exactly what I'd been looking for. A comprehensive history of CA in a digestible size. Really enjoyed reading this book.
 
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wsampson13 | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Mar 2, 2024 |
It will be a long time before I have enough knowledge to compare this book with others; nevertheless, it is a fine, dispationate history, with enough details for coherence and interest but not so many to big the reader down. Has an ample bibliography, index, and endnotes.
 
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mebrock | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Aug 3, 2023 |
Despite this being the highest rated book on California history, it is not a history of California. This is a history of California identity. In other words it is a history of how people thought of California.

Starr states this objective in the intro, but it took a couple if chapters for it to become clear what he meant.

You will not learn a lot about concrete California from this book, except maybe how identity shaped architecture. Starr assumes the reader knows California history and events are rarely discussed directly. For readers looking for a comprehensive history of this time period, I would definitely start elsewhere before circling back to this book.… (més)
 
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Hae-Yu | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Oct 23, 2022 |

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Obres
32
També de
6
Membres
2,385
Popularitat
#10,764
Valoració
½ 3.7
Ressenyes
52
ISBN
75
Preferit
2

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