Publisher Description
The critically acclaimed, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller—a gripping story of the strife and tragedy that led to San Francisco’s ultimate rebirth and triumph.
Salon founder David Talbot chronicles the cultural history of San Francisco and from the late 1960s to the early 1980s when figures such as Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin, Jim Jones, and Bill Walsh helped usher from backwater city to thriving metropolis.
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“He seeks to make sense of how San Francisco became a magnet for those who felt they didn’t fit elsewhere…Talbot takes the reader much deeper than cliché, exploring a San Francisco that tourists never discover.”
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Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
