Learning From A History Book

David is one of the many who took our challenge to read 12 books in 12 months. Last month we read a history book. David's choice was California: A History by Kevin Starr. Here was the sentence that stood out to him...

"To use the recent language of literary criticism, Disneyland is a text through which we can look back and re-experience the hopes and fears, the beliefs and illusions, of a postwar generation in the throes of creating the place we know as suburban Southern California."