TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heintz, William F.
TI  - San Francisco's mayors, 1850-1880: including a missing mayor discovery 
AV  - F 869.S353 .H365 1975
PY  - 1975///
CY  - Woodside, Calif.
PB  - G. Richards Publications
KW  - Mayors
KW  - California
KW  - San Francisco
N1  - Includes index; Bibliography: p. 111-116
N2  -  a community groping, sometimes ludicrously, for character, for "class." Meanwhile these inebriated toddlings were treated by the literati, both foreign and domestic, with a condescension that drew cries of resentment from chauvinistic San Franciscans; San Francisco's Mayors is a union of fact and fun, a romping reportage of the foibles of a small village projected into an adulthood without the benefit of a youth. It is a story of strong contrast--finery and filth, mink and mire, prudery and prostitution
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