Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AMERICANS AND THE CALIFORNIA DREAM by KEVIN STARR 494 pages. Oxford...
Cooley's book is an Avon paperback original, which started this fall with a first printing of 500,000, and is into a second printing now. The customers would get much more absorbing reading about California if they bought Kevin Starr's book instead. It is better history, for one thing −a long historical essay reflecting on the meaning of the California experience. The Burr senior tutor at Harvard's Eliot House, Starr writes an occasionally musty prose that smells of the stacks. Still, he draws upon a wealth of material, and his research is lively...
...Starr's book is rich with the biographies of Californians and their fates...
...Kevin Starr a Calif. dream...
...spokesman for the mayor said yesterday that the city librarian is exempt from civil service requirements and that reaction to the Starr appointment was favorable "in many quarters with which we are concerned...