Season of the Witch : Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love (Hardcover)

from Stahl-Ricco

A great overview of the events and people that shaped San Francisco in the 1960's and 1970's! Everyone and everything is in here, including Janis Joplin, The Dead, Moby Grape, Dan White, Harvey Milk, the Cockettes, the Zebra murders, and on and on and on. I felt like the book was very engaging, a...

from Bigrider7

This book details the heavily interwoven story of how San Francisco became the national beacon of liberalism and the tremendous costs that the city endured along the way, in an attempt to maintain it's lofty idealism. Beginning with the incredibly interesting career of attorney/activist Vince Hal...

from mojers

This was informative but equally entertaining. Moved through history at a pace that gave every topic fair coverage and established a sense of momentum that made it difficult for me to put this book down.

from jimrgill

Talbot's well written and insightful book provides an entertaining and enlightening look at the recent history of the city of San Francisco. From the 1950s and 1960s, when the city began to shape its identity as a haven for iconoclasts and “alternative” types through the turbulence of the 1970s t...

from dbsovereign

We lived it and we're still here. A fascinating history of a city torn by violence and plague that somehow comes out of it all stronger. San Francisco's story from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, this book delves into the darker corners of our collective psyche. Though I was here for it, this ...