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Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America's Fall from Grace (Harvest Book)

by David Beers

ISBN13: 9780156005319
ISBN10: 015600531x
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Beers' powerful memoir recounts his family's world, the world of middle-class suburbia, from Sputnik to the present, and writes of the great institutions--the government, the multinational corporations, the church, the suburban tract home neighborhood--in which his family put their faith, and how that faith was betrayed.

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Beers “important...fascinating” book(Los Angeles Times) shows how suburban California came to epitomize the american Dream-until its affluent complacency was shattered by downsizing, anxiety, and distrust.

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: shannonholman, August 8, 2007 (view all comments by shannonholman)
The radio show This American Life did an episode (#69, Dreamhouse) in which David Beers reads an excerpt from this book. You can download it at thisamericanlife.org -- it's a great story and a good preview to the book.
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ISBN:: 9780156005319
Author:: Beers, David
Publisher:: Mariner Books
Author:: Beers
Location:: San Diego :
Subject:: Literary
Subject:: California
Subject:: Biography
Subject:: Aeronautics
Subject:: Industries
Subject:: Aerospace industries
Subject:: California Biography.
Subject:: Beers, David
Subject:: Biography-Literary
Edition Number:: 1st. Harvest ed.
Edition Description:: Trade Paper
Series:: Harvest Book
Series Volume:: MT437
Publication Date:: 19970931
Binding:: TRADE PAPER
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Yes
Pages:: 288
Dimensions:: 8 x 5.31 in 9.99 lb

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