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Season of the Witch is the first book to fully capture the dark magic of San Francisco in this breathtaking period, when the city radically changed itself and then revolutionized the world. The cool gray city of love was the epicenter of the 1960s cultural revolution. But by the early 1970s, San Francisco s ecstatic experiment came crashing down from its starry heights. The city was rocked by savage murder sprees, mysterious terror campaigns, political assassinations, street riots, and finally a terrifying sexual epidemic. No other city endured so many calamities in such a short time span. David Talbot takes us deep into the riveting story of his city s ascent, decline, and heroic recovery. He draws intimate portraits of San Francisco s legendary demons and saviors: Charles Manson, Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army, Jerry Garcia, Janis Joplin, Bill Graham, Herb Caen, the Cockettes, Harvey Milk, Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, Joe Montana and the Super Bowl 49ers. He reveals how the city emerged from the trials of this period with a new brand of San Francisco values, including gay marriage, medical marijuana, immigration sanctuary, universal health care, recycling, renewable energy, consumer safety, and a living wage mandate. Considered radical when they were first introduced, these ideas have become the bedrock of decent society in many parts of the country, and exemplify the ways that the city now inspires us toward a live-and-let-live tolerance, a shared sense of humanity, and an openness to change. As a new generation of activists and dreamers seeks its own path to a more enlightened future, Season of the Witch with its epic tale of the wild and bloody birth of San Francisco values offers both inspiration and cautionary wisdom."
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"A fresh, fun, vigorous look at a strange American city David Talbot knows well and loves with irony." --Oliver Stone
"[A] sprawling, ambitious history... Talbot's energetic, highly entertaining storytelling conveys the exhilaration of '60s counterculture as well as the gathering ugliness that would mark the city in the '70s." --"""Boston Globe"
"As a phenomenally intuitive journalist, editor, and culture critic, David Talbot has not only channeled the Zeitgeist but helped make it."--Camille Paglia, best-selling author and culture critic
"[A] sprawling, lurid, dishy, and electric history... Talbot musters magnificent details from new interviews and old news reports. ... Talbot's chapter on the Zebra killings is genuinely harrowing, as are his accounts of Altamont, the SLA, and miscellaneous madness in a Haight flooded with junk-addicted veterans... always finding fresh anecdotes to savor even in familiar stories... this wild, thrilling, deeply reported book is a choice guide to all of those San Franciscos -- cities nobody yet has managed to reconcile in a coherent whole, so kudos to Talbot for matching subject to form." "--""San Francisco Weekly"
"In this wonderful book, David Talbot tells the stories deep in San Francisco's loric landscape, from its cultural greatness to the slides into madness. Talbot explores its volcanic originality with awe and respect. An unforgettable history." --Tom Hayden, author of "The Long Sixties"
"David Talbot is a great story-teller. He writes like an angel and has a reporter's passion for the truth. Describing people I knew, I can say that Talbot has perfect pitch, but he has also introduced me to others, as thrilling as sin. He got it all just right and gets closer to describing the lusty, languorous, glamorous, and sometimes lethal Saint named Francisco than anyone I know. The book overflows with gifts. I'm in awe of it." --Peter Coyote, author of "Sleeping Where I Fall"
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"[A] sprawling, ambitious history... Talbot's energetic, highly entertaining storytelling conveys the exhilaration of '60s counterculture as well as the gathering ugliness that would mark the city in the '70s." --"""Boston Globe"
"As a phenomenally intuitive journalist, editor, and culture critic, David Talbot has not only channeled the Zeitgeist but helped make it."--Camille Paglia, best-selling author and culture critic
"[A] sprawling, lurid, dishy, and electric history... Talbot musters magnificent details from new interviews and old news reports. ... Talbot's chapter on the Zebra killings is genuinely harrowing, as are his accounts of Altamont, the SLA, and miscellaneous madness in a Haight flooded with junk-addicted veterans... always finding fresh anecdotes to savor even in familiar stories... this wild, thrilling, deeply reported book is a choice guide to all of those San Franciscos -- cities nobody yet has managed to reconcile in a coherent whole, so kudos to Talbot for matching subject to form." "--""San Francisco Weekly"
"In this wonderful book, David Talbot tells the stories deep in San Francisco's loric landscape, from its cultural greatness to the slides into madness. Talbot explores its volcanic originality with awe and respect. An unforgettable history." --Tom Hayden, author of "The Long Sixties"
"David Talbot is a great story-teller. He writes like an angel and has a reporter's passion for the truth. Describing people I knew, I can say that Talbot has perfect pitch, but he has also introduced me to others, as thrilling as sin. He got it all just right and gets closer to describing the lusty, languorous, glamorous, and sometimes lethal Saint named Francisco than anyone I know. The book overflows with gifts. I'm in awe of it." --Peter Coyote, author of "Sleeping Where I Fall"
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"Talbot's new book delves to impressive depths in tracing the city's transformation from parochial backwater to countercultural beacon... the Salon founder deftly sketches portraits of hippies, politicos, and rights activists who forged our 'San Francisco values' and in the process rescues some old icons from obscurity... a compulsively entertaining page-turner... A useful lesson for our Occupied times: Change is hard, but it's possible." --"San Francisco Magazine"
"Talbot's book is a gritty, poetic Valentine to the city by the bay as it emerged as a fantasia of ethnic, cultural, sexual, intellectual and social liberation. Talbot doesn't back off from having literary flowers in his hair recounting some of the halcyon days of the summer of love, but he also chronicles the city's many problems with a heavy dose of hardboiled reporter noir. " --"Huffington Post"
""Season of the Witch" is an enthralling -- and harrowing -- account of how the 1967 Summer of Love gave way to 20 or so winters of discontent. An undercurrent of rock music runs through the book...Some of the artists, such as the Dead and the Jefferson Airplane, still get airplay. Others enjoyed fleeting fame. "Season of the Witch", however, is good enough to last." --"Washington Post"
"Excellent...Talbot's account of the rise of Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple religious movement is absolutely masterful, allowing the reader to see just how and why this unstable preacher achieved such prominence. Talbot not only gives us a nuanced account of the city that he clearly loves, but he also gives us a cultural history of late-20th-century America.""--Milwaukee Shepard-Express"
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.
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- PublisherBrilliance Audio
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1501246917
- ISBN 13 9781501246913
- BindingMP3 CD
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