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Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xxx, 630 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life of Power and Politics offers the first biography of one of the Gilded Age's most prominent and powerful women."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the harrowing, yet wryly funny story of Safran's childhood chasing the perfect life off the grid--and how he and his mother survived the imperfect one they found instead. More than just a coming-of age story, "Free Spirit" is a journey of the spirit, as Safran reconnects with his Jewish roots; a tale of overcoming adversity; and a captivating read about a childhood unlike any other.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Raised by a seafaring father and a seamstress mother, by San Francisco's Chinatown and its legendary Orphan Bachelors -- men without wives or children -- the author recounts how her family built a life in a country bent on exclusion and how she absorbed the Orphan Bachelor's suspicious, lonely, barren nature.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
xi, 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces three generations of a Chinese-American family from its patriarch's self-invention as an immigration broker in post-gold rush San Francisco to the family's intimate involvement in the 1904 World's Fair.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
268 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
First biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Free Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 452 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In a kaleidoscopic narrative, bestselling author David Talbot recounts the gripping story of San Francisco in the turbulent years between 1967 and 1982--and of the extraordinary men and women who led to the city's ultimate rebirth and triumph. 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...
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