San Francisco: Instant City, Promised Land - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Reaktion BooksISBN-13:9781780239217ISBN-10:1780239211UPC:9781780239217Book Category:Travel, HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:West, State & LocalSize:8.60 x 5.30 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2721Product ID:SCRRP3QRGS
San Francisco: Instant City, Promised Land
A local rock star once said, "San Francisco is forty-nine square miles surrounded by reality." No American city has such a broad sweep of staggering views--of the ocean, of a huge bay, of surrounding hills--or such a high opinion of its own worth. San Francisco has always been rich, too; the city's great wealth has long underwritten the broadmindedness so vital to its charm. But there is much...
Series: Cityscopes
Language:EnglishPublisher:Reaktion BooksISBN-13:9781780239217ISBN-10:1780239211UPC:9781780239217Book Category:Travel, HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:West, State & LocalSize:8.60 x 5.30 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2721Product ID:SCRRP3QRGS
Michael Johns worked in San Francisco for a year as a bicycle messenger and fell in love with the city. Ten years later he became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he still teaches. Johns is the author of Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s and The Education of a Radical: An American Revolutionary in Sandinista Nicaragua. He lives in San Francisco.
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