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Kevin Starr, historian and former California state librarian has died.

January 16, 2017

 

“I thought, ‘There’s all kinds of wonderful books on California, but they don’t seem to have the point of view we’re encouraged to look at — the social drama of the imagination,’” Kevin Starr told The Times. Filling this gap would become his life’s work, making him the state’s foremost historian and one of its most revered public intellectuals.” – LA Times

From a bookseller’s point of view, Kevin Starr’s books were the perfect mix of the general and specific. Broader in scope the books called “Californiana”, but organized by a narrower time and theme to be much more useful that an ordinary one-volume history of the state.

Follow this link for a nice remembrance by Peter H. King in today’s LA Times.

Here is what we have stock:

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3 books | Displaying page 1 of 1

Dream Endures: California Enters The 1940sDream Endures: California Enters The 1940s
Author: Starr, Kevin
Oxford University Press, 1997. First printing.
Near fine in very good jacket, some creases etc.
Stock number: U0195100794
ISBN-13: 978/195100792 
Shelf Code:07B5

$19.50


Hardcover, Used

 California

California: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)California: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
Author: Starr, Kevin
Modern Library, 2007.

Stock number: 081297753X
ISBN-13: 97808129775310 
Shelf Code:07B5

$18.00


Paperback, New

 California

California: A HistoryCalifornia: A History
Author: Starr, Kevin
Modern Library, 2005. First printing thus.
Near fine in dust jacket.
Stock number: U0679642404
ISBN-13: 9780679642404 
Shelf Code:07B5

$25.00


Hardcover, Used

 California


3 books | Displaying page 1 of 1

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