Record details

• ISBN: 9781439108215
• ISBN: 1439108218
• Physical Description: 452 pages ; 24 cm
• Edition: 1st Free Press edition
• Publisher: New York : Free Press, 2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue: Wild Irish Rogues -- pt. 1. Enchantment -- Saturday Afternoon -- Dead Men Dancing -- The Walled City -- The Free City -- The Lost Children of Windy Feet -- Street Medicine -- Murder on Shakedown Street -- The Napoleon of Rock -- The Daily Circus -- San Francisco's Morning Kiss -- Radio Free America -- The Palace of Golden Cocks -- pt. 2. Terror -- A Death in the Family -- Lucifer Rising -- A Knife Down Your Throat -- Benevolent Dictator -- Love's Last Stand -- Dungeons and Dragons -- The Revolution Will Be Televised -- Black and White and Red All Over -- The Empress of Chinatown -- San Francisco Satyricon -- Civic War -- Inside Man -- Slouching Toward San Francisco -- Prophet of Doom -- Exodus -- Rapture in the Jungle -- The Reckoning -- A Tale of Two Cities -- Day of the Gun -- pt. 3. Deliverance -- Fire by Trial -- The Center Holds -- Strange Angels -- Playing Against God -- The City of Saint Francis -- Epilogue.

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City and town life > California > San Francisco > History > 20th century.
Culture conflict > California > San Francisco > History > 20th century.
Social problems > California > San Francisco > History > 20th century.
Social change > California > San Francisco > History > 20th century.
Political culture > California > San Francisco > History > 20th century.
Counterculture > California > San Francisco > History > 20th century.
San Francisco (Calif.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
San Francisco (Calif.) > History > 20th century.
San Francisco (Calif.) > Biography.
San Francisco (Calif.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.

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Biographies.