Season of the witch enchantment, terror, and deliverance in the City of love
In a kaleidoscopic narrative, bestselling author David Talbot recounts the gripping story of San Francisco in the turbulent years between 1967 and 1982--and of the extraordinary men and women who led to the city's ultimate rebirth and triumph. Season of the Witch is the first book to fully capture t...
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New York :
Free Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st Free Press hardcover ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
