소개
In 1542, Spanish explorers landed upon the shores of Southern California expecting to find a terrestrial paradise, and instead, found only a burnt-over desert. But during a four-hundred-year-long metamorphosis carried out by thousands of dissimilar individuals of far-flung imagination and fixed purpose, Southern California was transformed into the nation's most promised land: a tangible symbol of all the best life had to offer in mid-twentieth-century America.