"Lincoln Mitchell presents a new and brilliant understanding of San Francisco, America's most progressive city, by describing and interpreting its culture through the extraordinary prism of politics, baseball, and the punk rock scene in the seventies. The reader learns how and why San Francisco, frequently chided derisively by President Trump and other right wing politicians for our 'San Francisco values, ' developed those values that eventually become an indelible part of American values everywhere."–Art Agnos "Mayor of San Francisco, 1988-1991"