No American city has a more colorful history than San Francisco. In this unique book, author Rand Richards not only provides a vivid narrative of this special c

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). T

A professor of womenÆs studies explores gay San Francisco in the 1960s, tracing the bar scene, gay activism, and official oppression carried out by the police

Winner of the American Book Award San Francisco Chinatown is the first book of its kind—an "insider's guide" to one of America's most celebrated ethnic enclav

The scenes which the author tries to depict for the reader show a multitude of figures and many phases of passion. A host of adventurers flocking from the cente