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

by David Talbot

• ISBN13: 9781439108215
• ISBN10: 1439108218
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-08
• Publisher: Free Press

Summary

New York Times bestselling author David Talbot,#xA0;takes how San Francisco rose from the ashes of the 1970s to inspire the nation.

Author Biography

David Talbot, author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, is the founder and CEO of Salon. He lives in San Francisco.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Prologue: Wild Irish Rogues	p. 1
Enchantment	p. 19
Saturday Afternoon	p. 21
Dead Men Dancing	p. 26
The Walled City	p. 32
The Free City	p. 36
The Lost Children of Windy Feet	p. 42
Street Medicine	p. 51
Murder on Shakedown Street	p. 60
The Napoleon of Rock	p. 68
The Daily Circus	p. 76
San Francisco's Morning Kiss	p. 84
Radio Free America	p. 90
The Palace of Golden Cocks	p. 98
Terror	p. 109
A Death in the Family	p. 111
Lucifer Rising	p. 123
A Knife Down Your Throat	p. 134
Benevolent Dictator	p. 144
Love's Last Stand	p. 156
Dungeons and Dragons	p. 169
The Revolution Will Be Televised	p. 180
Black and White and Red All Over	p. 204
The Empress of Chinatown	p. 224
San Francisco Satyricon	p. 233
Civic War	p. 248
Inside Man	p. 267
Slouching Toward San Francisco	p. 275
Prophet of Doom	p. 284
Exodus	p. 290
Rapture in the Jungle	p. 298
The Reckoning	p. 305
A Tale of Two Cities	p. 311
Day of the Gun	p. 322
Deliverance	p. 337
Fire by Trial	p. 339
The Center Holds	p. 350
Strange Angels	p. 358
Playing Against God	p. 376
The City of Saint Francis	p. 387
Epilogue	p. 405
Season of the Witch Playlist	p. 407
Sources	p. 409
Index	p. 429
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