Golden Coast.("Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950")

From: National Review | Date: August 12, 2002| Author: KLINGHOFFER, DAVID | Copyright information

Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950, by Kevin Starr (Oxford, 386 pp., $37.50)

Thomas Mann wrote of California's "serene Egyptian-like sky," a sky that sheltered him from Nazi fascism. Another European of the same era, a Brit, having danced with Governor Earl Warren's daughter Nina "Honey Bear" Warren, swooned at the thought of the tanned, blue-eyed girl from the Golden State. "I still see California through a faint golden haze," he recalled later, "...

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