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ISBN-10: 0393357430
ISBN-13: 9780393357431
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 11/19/2019
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.40" W, 0.70" H

Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley

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San Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been reshaped by Silicon Valley. The richer the region gets, the more unequal and less diverse it becomes, and cracks in the city’s facade–rapid gentrification, an epidemic of evictions, rising crime, atrophied public institutions–are growing wider. Inspired by Studs Terkel’s classic works of oral history, Cary McClelland spent years interviewing people at the epicenter of recent change, from venture capitalists and coders to politicians and protesters, capturing San Francisco as never before.

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A people's history of the Bay Area.... McClelland carefully layers each dot, each narrative, and with it, a little window into the Bay Area widens until you step back and see it: the full picture.–Erin Baldassari "Mercury News"
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Details

ISBN-10: 0393357430
ISBN-13: 9780393357431
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 11/19/2019
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.40" W, 0.70" H
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