"Highly readable...The book is full of surprises, it is constantly
challenging...A fine performance."--Pacific Historical Review
"[Starr] is bringing much to Western social and literary
history."--American Historical Review
"One devil of a fine book, a book only a native Californian could
write...about the Inner Life of California, the psychic landscape
that emerges from the works and ways of her writers, both native
and self-adopted. The result is a mature, well-proportioned and
marvelously diverse (and diverting) study."--The New York Times
Book Review
"A very important book."--Joseph H. Krause, California State
University, Long Beach
"Indispensable...Starr's book does for California what Henry Nash
Smith's 'Virgin Land' did for the opening of the West: it
demonstrates how idea, myth, misconception and hope shaped and
often distorted a developing society."--Los Angeles Times
"A vivid portrayal of the rich and varied intellectual forces which
helped shape one of our most distinctive regional cultures."--St.
Louis Post-Dispatch
"An exceptional work, both in thought and magnitude...Both scholars
and laymen will find this volume a worthwhile addition to their
libraries."--History: Reviews of New Books
"A highly original inquiry into the interplay of vision and
event.'"--Virginia Quarterly Review
"A captivating narrative that documents the importance of myth and
imagination in attracting Americans to California before World War
I."--R.H. Limbaugh, University of the Pacific
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