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Author : James P. Walsh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book San Francisco's Hallinan written by James P. Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Christine
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147663081X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book They Left Their Hearts in San Francisco written by Bill Christine and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Cory and Douglass Cross wrote just one hit song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." They were unknown before they wrote it--and were unknown after it became a standard. Their lives were a tangle. They eked out a meager living in San Francisco and Brooklyn for 15 years before Tony Bennett serendipitously came across the song, which had languished. His recording revived his career and made the songwriters rich. Wealth didn't beget happiness. The duo broke up. Cross drank himself to death. Cory died from drinking as well (widely believed to be a suicide). In 2016, San Francisco dedicated a monument to the city's official song in front of the iconic Fairmont Hotel--a statue of Tony Bennett.
Download or read book Second Chances written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1972 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Crocker-Langley San Francisco Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 2156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Crocker-Langley San Francisco Business Directory ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 2156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1196 pages
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Download or read book Polk's Crocker-Langley San Francisco City Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Talbot
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439127875
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Season of the Witch written by David Talbot and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critically acclaimed, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller—a gripping story of the strife and tragedy that led to San Francisco’s ultimate rebirth and triumph. 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.
Author : Vivian Moore Hallinan
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book My Wild Irish Rogues written by Vivian Moore Hallinan and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1952 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Morain
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982175788
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Kamala's Way written by Dan Morain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to stand for Vice President, charting how the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California became one of this country’s most effective power players. There’s very little that’s conventional about Kamala Harris, and yet her personal story also represents the best of America. She grew up the eldest daughter of a single mother, a no-nonsense cancer researcher who emigrated from India at the age of nineteen in search of a better education. She and her husband, an accomplished economist from Jamaica, split up when Kamala was only five. The Kamala Harris the public knows today is tough, smart, quick-witted, and demanding. She’s a prosecutor—her one-liners are legendary—but she’s more reticent when it comes to sharing much about herself, even in her memoirs. Fortunately, former Los Angeles Times reporter Dan Morain has been there from the start. In Kamala’s Way, he charts her career from its beginnings handling child molestation cases and homicides for the Alameda County District Attorney’s office and her relationship as a twenty-nine-year-old with the most powerful man in the state: married Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, a relationship that would prove life-changing. Morain takes readers through Harris’s years in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, explores her audacious embrace of the little-known Barack Obama, and shows the sharp elbows she deployed to make it to the US Senate. He analyzes her failure as a presidential candidate and the behind-the-scenes campaign she waged to land the Vice President spot. Along the way, he paints a vivid picture of her values and priorities, the kind of people she brings into her orbit, the sorts of problems she’s good at solving, and the missteps, risks, and bold moves she’s made on her way to the top. Kamala’s Way is essential reading for all Americans curious about the woman standing by Joe Biden’s side.
Author : Eric Etheridge
Publisher : Atlas Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Breach of Peace written by Eric Etheridge and published by Atlas Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans - black and white, male and female - converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge the state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights. Over 300 were arrested and convicted of 'breaching of the peace'. The name, mug shot and other personal details of each arrested Freedom Rider were duly recorded and saved. Collected here is a richly illustrated book book featuring contemporary photos and interviews alongside the mug shots.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Investigation of Students for a Democratic Society written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pt. 4: Investigates American University chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); pt. 5: investigates activities of Communist Party, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and DuBois Club in and around the University of Chicago; pt. 6-A: Investigates SDS efforts to recruit Columbus, Ohio high school and working-class youth; pt. 6-B: Investigates attempts by SDS to recruit high school students in Akron, Ohio, Detroit, Mich., and Pittsburgh, Pa.; pt. 7-A: Investigates how SDS engineered release of U.S. POWs from North Vietnam for anti-war propaganda purposes; pt. 7-B: Investigates activities of Students for a Democratic Society and their involvement in antiwar activities and civil disturbances.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security
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Total Pages : 1068 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Internal Security written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199924309
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Golden Dreams written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar period--1950 to 1963--when the California we know today first burst into prominence. Starr brilliantly illuminates the dominant economic, social, and cultural forces in California in these pivotal years. In a powerful blend of telling events, colorful personalities, and insightful analyses, Starr examines such issues as the overnight creation of the postwar California suburb, the rise of Los Angeles as Super City, the reluctant emergence of San Diego as one of the largest cities in the nation, and the decline of political centrism. He explores the Silent Generation and the emergent Boomer youth cult, the Beats and the Hollywood "Rat Pack," the pervasive influence of Zen Buddhism and other Asian traditions in art and design, the rise of the University of California and the emergence of California itself as a utopia of higher education, the cooling of West Coast jazz, freeway and water projects of heroic magnitude, outdoor life and the beginnings of the environmental movement. More broadly, he shows how California not only became the most populous state in the Union, but in fact evolved into a mega-state en route to becoming the global commonwealth it is today. Golden Dreams continues an epic series that has been widely recognized for its signal contribution to the history of American culture in California. It is a book that transcends its stated subject to offer a wealth of insight into the growth of the Sun Belt and the West and indeed the dramatic transformation of America itself in these pivotal years following the Second World War.
Author : University of California, Berkeley
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Total Pages : 1880 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Register written by University of California, Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of California, Berkeley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1710 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Register of the University of California written by University of California, Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert W. Cherny
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252053796
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Harry Bridges written by Robert W. Cherny and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconic leader of one of America’s most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. Robert Cherny’s monumental biography tells the life story of the figure who built the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) into a labor powerhouse that still represents almost 30,000 workers. An Australian immigrant, Bridges worked the Pacific Coast docks. His militant unionism placed him at the center of the 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike and spurred him to expand his organizing activities to warehouse laborers and Hawaiian sugar and pineapple workers. Cherny examines the overall effectiveness of Bridges as a union leader and the decisions and traits that made him effective. Cherny also details the price paid by Bridges as the US government repeatedly prosecuted him for his left-wing politics. Drawing on personal interviews with Bridges and years of exhaustive research, Harry Bridges places an extraordinary individual and the ILWU within the epic history of twentieth-century labor radicalism.
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199923930
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Dream Endures written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-28 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. Motels, home trailers, drive-ins, barbecues, beach life and surfing, sports from polo and tennis and golf to mountain climbing and skiing, "sportswear" (a word coined at the time), and sun suits were all a part of the good life--perhaps California's most distinctive influence of the 1930s. In The Dream Endures, Kevin Starr shows how the good life prospered in California--in pursuits such as film, fiction, leisure, and architecture--and helped to define American culture and society then and for years to come. Starr previously chronicled how Californians absorbed the thousand natural shocks of the Great Depression--unemployment, strikes, Communist agitation, reactionary conspiracies--in Endangered Dreams, the fourth volume of his classic history of California. In The Dream Endures, Starr reveals the other side of the picture, examining the newly important places where the good life flourished, like Los Angeles (where Hollywood lived), Palm Springs (where Hollywood vacationed), San Diego (where the Navy went), the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (where Einstein went and changed his view of the universe), and college towns like Berkeley. We read about the rich urban life of San Francisco and Los Angeles, and in newly important communities like Carmel and San Simeon, the home of William Randolph Hearst, where, each Thursday afternoon, automobiles packed with Hollywood celebrities would arrive from Southern California for the long weekend at Hearst Castle. The 1930s were the heyday of the Hollywood studios, and Starr brilliantly captures Hollywood films and the society that surrounded the studios. Starr offers an astute discussion of the European refugees who arrived in Hollywood during the period: prominent European film actors and artists and the creative refugees who were drawn to Hollywood and Southern California in these years--Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Man Ray, Bertolt Brecht, Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Mann, and Franz Werfel. Starr gives a fascinating account of how many of them attempted to recreate their European world in California and how others, like Samuel Goldwyn, provided stories and dreams for their adopted nation. Starr reserves his greatest attention and most memorable writing for San Francisco. For Starr, despite the city's beauty and commercial importance, San Francisco's most important achievement was the sense of well-being it conferred on its citizens. It was a city that "magically belonged to everyone." Whether discussing photographers like Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, "hard-boiled fiction" writers, or the new breed of female star--Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Carole Lombard, and the improbable Mae West--The Dream Endures is a brilliant social and cultural history--in many ways the most far-reaching and important of Starr's California books.
