- Social life and customs, Political culture, Social change, Culture conflict
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.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- David Talbot
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Limited, Brilliance Audio, Free Press
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781439108215
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David Talbot, born and raised in Los Angeles, California, is an American journalist, author, activist and independent historian. Talbot is from a media and entertainment family. Talbot attended the Harvard School for Boys but did not graduate after falling afoul of the school's headmaster and ROTC program during the Vietnam War. After graduating from the University of California at Santa Cruz, the only university that would accept him, he returned to Los Angeles, where he co-wrote a history of the Hollywood Left, *Creative Differences*, with Barbara Zheutlin, and freelanced for *Crawdaddy*, *Rolling Stone*, and other magazines. He was later hired by Environmental Action Foundation in Washing
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