Record details

• ISBN: 9781439108215
• ISBN: 1439108218
• Physical Description: print
  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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Subject:

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

Genre:

Biographies.