San Francisco Year Zero : : Political Upheaval, Punk Rock and a Third-Place Baseball Team / / Lincoln A. Mitchell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Mitchell, Lincoln A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 31 color photographs, 2 tables

San Francisco is a city of contradictions. It is one of the most socially liberal cities in America, but it also has some of the nation’s worst income inequality. It is a playground for tech millionaires, with an outrageously high cost of living, yet it also supports vibrant alternative and avant-garde scenes. So how did the city get this way? In San Francisco Year Zero, San Francisco native Lincoln Mitchell traces the roots of the current situation back to 1978, when three key events occurred: the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk occurring fewer than two weeks after the massacre of Peoples Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana, the explosion of the city’s punk rock scene, and a breakthrough season for the San Francisco Giants. Through these three strands, Mitchell explores the rifts between the city’s pro-business and progressive-left politicians, the emergence of Dianne Feinstein as a political powerhouse, the increasing prominence of the city’s LGBT community, punk’s reinvigoration of the Bay Area’s radical cultural politics, and the ways that the Giants helped unify one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse cities in the nation. Written from a unique insider’s perspective, San Francisco Year Zero deftly weaves together the personal and the political, putting a human face on the social upheavals that transformed a city.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 New Year’s 1978 -- 2 San Francisco in 1978 -- 3 Spring Training -- 4 Heading to the ’Stick -- 5 Harvey Milk -- 6 The Band Is Called What? -- 7 The Pennant Race -- 8 A Month Like No Other -- 9 The Long Shadow of 1978 -- 10 Neighborhoods, Natives, and Those Hills -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author