ISBN10: 1566564891, ISBN13: 9781566564892, [publisher: Interlink Books] Softcover First Edition 254 pp. Very light general and edgewear to illustrated covers. All else as new. Map; Index; Illustrations; Further Reading. "Explores gold-rush San Francisco and the early free-for-all that led to corruption, vigilantism, and public hangings. From the 19th-century mansions of Nob Hill and the Barbary Coast with its spiked drinks, he charts the 1950s San Francisco Poetry Renaissance that sired the Beat Generation. Through literature, music, and popular culture, he considers the rise of Berkeley's student activism, the genesis of hippie culture and Haight-Ashbury's legendary Summer of Love. Explaining how the Castro became the world's most famous gay neighborhood, he also reveals how a booming internet economy transformed and then threatened to destroy the city." Size: 12mo
[Kunyung, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 2004]
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