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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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Really engaging history of San Francisco in the late 60s, 70s, and some of the 80s. I skipped the two chapters about football because I just don't. Total page turner, I learned a ton.
This is exactly the type of non-fiction that I love best: illuminating and fast-paced. The book was especially useful in connecting the dots between events that I already knew about, and giving context for why certain people and events developed as they did. Highly recommend.