These days the California dream looks a little tarnished. Arnold Schwarzenegger's government is dysfunctional and the legislature gridlocked. Unemployment is high, public schooling poor and the physical infrastructure in dire need of renewal.rnBut that is now. By contrast Kevin Starr's eighth offering in his epic series, "Americans and the California Dream", covers a period when the dream was at its most persuasive. By 1963 the "Golden State" was overtaking New York to become the most populous in the nation, with Governor Edmund "Pat" Brown proudly declaring that "the balance of the most powerful nation of the world will shift from the Atlantic to the Pacific."
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