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A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.

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In the luxuriance of a bowl of grapes set out in ritual display, in a bottle of wine, the soil and sunshine of California reached millions for whom that distant place would henceforth be envisioned as a sun-graced land resplendent with the goodness of the fruitful earth.

Kevin Starr

Kevin Starr

Kevin Starr

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Born: September 3, 1940

Died: January 14, 2017 (aged 76)

Bio: Kevin Owen Starr was an American historian and Caliifornia's State Librarian, best known for his multi-volume series on the history of California, collectively called "Americans and the California Dream."

Known for:

Material dreams (1990)
Golden Dreams (2009)
Endangered dreams (1996)
The dream endures (1997)

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