San Francisco's mayors, 1850-1880 : including a missing mayor discovery / by William F. Heintz ; research assistance by Gladys C. Hansen.
Material type: TextPublication details: Woodside, Calif. : G. Richards Publications, c1975.Description: vi, 120 p. : ill. 28 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:- F 869.S353 .H365 1975
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 111-116.
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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