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San francisco is a beautiful city and this book makes the colors even brighter. This nonfiction book covers the raft of amazing events that took place in san francisco between 1967 and 1982. It is through these stories that we learn all of the hardshi... Read More
Talbot’s opus is a profoundly valuable addition to our historical understanding of societal pendulum swings. Talbot's style walks a near-perfect line between scholarly and folksy.
The author's writing style is extremely readable. Plus the requisite prologue, epilogue, introduction and author's note.
Author is unabashedly a fan of the sixties counter-culture. Whether you agree or disagree with the anti-establishment movement of the 60s and early 70s, this book gives great insight to the events of the period. Author often goes to lengths to point o... Read More
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This book does nothing to enlighten the world about san francisco outside of naming the denizens of the tabloids from the 60s-80s. It's hard to make sense of sf's history of radicalism and being on the front of social movements, or for that matter the... Read More
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It begins with the year of love and moves through the zebra killings jonestown the deaths of harvey milk and george moscone the... Read More
Whether you agree or disagree with the antiestablishment movement of the 60s and early 70s this book gives great insight to the... Read More
I remain intrigued by the city by the bay
Talbot begins in 1967 by telling all the beautiful and wonderfully unique characteristics that makes san fransisco a mecca for ... Read More
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Silverman as an evil hatemongering gaybashing homophobe compared to whom john briggs and anita bryant were rank amateurs
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Many of us with roots there will recognize the events that shaped our city
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I picked this book up after a visit in 2018 drawn in by the promise to reveal a citys history that only a local would of written
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The account is broken into 3 parts containing 36 chapters over 400 pages
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What you also dont get necessarily is a rehashing of well known troupes and anecdotes unless you know the city like a local
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Youll learn the progress from iconoclassic san francisco the irish catholic enclave at the golden gate through to the bill walsh dynastic 49ers football team
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George moscone harvey milk and willie brown for their implicit complicity in the monstrosity that was jim jones peoples temple he implies that they could not have foreseen the horrors they inflicted on their innocent victims
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These people were too close to jones and his henchmen not to know
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When you consider how liberals like these let jones and his followers actually steal the mayoral election and then flatly rejected these claims when levied by conservatives like barbagelata its easy to understand why conservatives today continue to believe that liberals stole the presidency and reject the the ceaseless conclusory denials from the left
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