The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America

Southern California has long been promoted as the playground of the world, the home of resort-style living, backyard swimming pools, and year-round suntans. Tracing the history of Southern California from the late nineteenth century through the late twentieth century, The Frontier of Leisure reveals how this region did much more than just create lavish resorts like Santa Catalina Island and Palm Springs—it literally remade American attitudes towards leisure. Lawrence Culver shows how this "...