Author : Tom Cole
Release : 2012-03-01
Genre : History
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A Short History of San Francisco - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Short History of San Francisco write by Tom Cole. This book was released on 2012-03-01. A Short History of San Francisco available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A concise, “colorful, well-told” history of the City by the Bay, from the Gold Rush to the Summer of Love to the twenty-first century (Los Angeles Times). This is the story of San Francisco, a unique and rowdy tale with a legendary cast of characters. It tells of the Indians and the Spanish missions, the arrival of thousands of gold seekers and gamblers, crackbrains and dreamers, the building of the transcontinental railroad and the cable car, labor strife and political shenanigans, the 1906 earthquake and fire, two World Wars, two World's Fairs, two great bridges, the beatniks and hippies and New Left—a story that is so marvelous and wild that it must be true. A new afterword from the author in this updated third edition brings The City into the twenty-first century—a time just as hectic, experimental, and opportunistic as its rambunctious past.