"He is the Henry J.Kaiser or Walt Disney of this era," said Kevin Starr, a culture historian and the California state librarian.

“他就是这个时代的亨利·j·凯泽(Henry J . Kaiser)和华特·迪斯尼(Walt Disney)，”文化历史学家、加利福尼亚州图书馆员凯文·施塔尔(Kevin Starr)如是说。

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As Kevin Starr points out in his history of the state, California has long been "one of the prisms through which the American people, for better and for worse, could glimpse their future".

正如凯文·斯塔在他为加州撰写的历史中所指出的，长期以来，加州一直像一个棱镜，“通过它，美国人可以窥见自己的未来，不管是好的还是坏的。”

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Kevin Starr, the leading historian of California and a fourth-generation San Franciscan, points out that his city has always been unsure about whether it is a serious city or just a pretty face.

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Kevin Starr, California's leading historian, points out that the mood in the state is reminiscent of the aftermath of the first and second world wars, when government was calmly regarded as a useful problem-solver and ideology was so muted that, in 1947, Earl Warren won both the Republican and Democratic nominations for the governorship.

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CNN's Kevin Liptak and Barbara Starr contributed to this report.

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