Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era (Americans and the California Dream)This second volume in Kevin Starr's passionate and ambitious cultural history of the Golden State focuses on the turn of the century years and the emergence of Southern California as a regional culture in its own right. "How hauntingly beautiful, how replete with lost possibilities, seems that Southern California of two and three generations ago, now that a dramatically diferent society has emerged in its place," writes Starr. As he recreates the