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Book How Our Laws are Made

Download or read book How Our Laws are Made written by John V. Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dream Endures

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kevin Starr
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2002-11-28
  • ISBN : 0199923930
  • Pages : 513 pages

Download or read book The Dream Endures written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-28 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. Motels, home trailers, drive-ins, barbecues, beach life and surfing, sports from polo and tennis and golf to mountain climbing and skiing, "sportswear" (a word coined at the time), and sun suits were all a part of the good life--perhaps California's most distinctive influence of the 1930s. In The Dream Endures, Kevin Starr shows how the good life prospered in California--in pursuits such as film, fiction, leisure, and architecture--and helped to define American culture and society then and for years to come. Starr previously chronicled how Californians absorbed the thousand natural shocks of the Great Depression--unemployment, strikes, Communist agitation, reactionary conspiracies--in Endangered Dreams, the fourth volume of his classic history of California. In The Dream Endures, Starr reveals the other side of the picture, examining the newly important places where the good life flourished, like Los Angeles (where Hollywood lived), Palm Springs (where Hollywood vacationed), San Diego (where the Navy went), the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (where Einstein went and changed his view of the universe), and college towns like Berkeley. We read about the rich urban life of San Francisco and Los Angeles, and in newly important communities like Carmel and San Simeon, the home of William Randolph Hearst, where, each Thursday afternoon, automobiles packed with Hollywood celebrities would arrive from Southern California for the long weekend at Hearst Castle. The 1930s were the heyday of the Hollywood studios, and Starr brilliantly captures Hollywood films and the society that surrounded the studios. Starr offers an astute discussion of the European refugees who arrived in Hollywood during the period: prominent European film actors and artists and the creative refugees who were drawn to Hollywood and Southern California in these years--Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Man Ray, Bertolt Brecht, Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Mann, and Franz Werfel. Starr gives a fascinating account of how many of them attempted to recreate their European world in California and how others, like Samuel Goldwyn, provided stories and dreams for their adopted nation. Starr reserves his greatest attention and most memorable writing for San Francisco. For Starr, despite the city's beauty and commercial importance, San Francisco's most important achievement was the sense of well-being it conferred on its citizens. It was a city that "magically belonged to everyone." Whether discussing photographers like Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, "hard-boiled fiction" writers, or the new breed of female star--Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Carole Lombard, and the improbable Mae West--The Dream Endures is a brilliant social and cultural history--in many ways the most far-reaching and important of Starr's California books.

Book Certificate of Incorporation  Constitution  By laws and Rules  Officers and Committees  Members  in Memorium

Download or read book Certificate of Incorporation Constitution By laws and Rules Officers and Committees Members in Memorium written by Bohemian Club (San Francisco, Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aero Club of America

Download or read book Aero Club of America written by Aero Club of America and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lambs Theatre Club

Download or read book The Lambs Theatre Club written by Lewis Hardee and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From its origins in 1874 as an intimate actors' dining club, The Lambs by 1925 had become the most famous theatrical club in the world-the stuff of fable. Drawn extensively from The Lambs' official archives, this work traces The Lambs' roots in London and its initial development in America, dominated by English and later Irish actors"--Provided by publisher.

Book Directory of Members  Constitution and By laws of the Society of American Military Engineers

Download or read book Directory of Members Constitution and By laws of the Society of American Military Engineers written by Society of American Military Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1962
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1452 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative  1950 1977  Non Dewey decimal classified titles

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1950 1977 Non Dewey decimal classified titles written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book United States Retirement Plan Bonds

Download or read book United States Retirement Plan Bonds written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ina Coolbrith  Librarian and Laureate of California

Download or read book Ina Coolbrith Librarian and Laureate of California written by Josephine DeWitt Rhodehamel and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Year Book

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  • Author : Association of the Bar of the City of New York
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Year Book written by Association of the Bar of the City of New York and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religious Corporations Act  Japan   2018 Edition

Download or read book Religious Corporations Act Japan 2018 Edition written by The Law The Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-11-03 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious Corporations Act (Japan) (2018 Edition) Updated as of October 23, 2018 This book contains: - The complete text of the Religious Corporations Act (Japan) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section

Book National Union Catalog

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases

Book Fire and Water Engineering

Download or read book Fire and Water Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cahill s Consolidated Laws of New York

Download or read book Cahill s Consolidated Laws of New York written by New York (State). and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: