VIRTUAL AUTHOR EVENT // Lincoln Mitchell - San Francisco Year Zero

Due to the State of Califorina Shelter-In-Place order regarding protective measures for COVID-19, this will be a virtual event hosted on Zoom.

Join Napa Bookmine for virtual author hour with Lincoln Mitchell on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 5:00PM PDT. The discussion will be focused on Lincoln's book San Francisco Year Zero. This virtual event is presented in partnership with the Yountville Community Center.

This is a VIRTUAL event and will take place on Zoom. You must RSVP to attend. RSVP to read@napabookmine.com to receive the meeting link and password. 

This is a free event. If you are able, a donation of $5 is suggested to help us cover costs. Donate here.

To help us offset costs, you can also purchase Lincoln's book in advance here.


ABOUT THE BOOK

San Francisco is a city of contradictions. It is one of the most socially liberal cities in America, but it also has some of the nation’s worst income inequality. It is a playground for tech millionaires, with an outrageously high cost of living, yet it also supports vibrant alternative and avant-garde scenes. So how did the city get this way?
 
In San Francisco Year Zero, San Francisco native Lincoln Mitchell traces the roots of the current situation back to 1978, when three key events occurred: the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk occurring fewer than two weeks after the massacre of Peoples Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana, the explosion of the city’s punk rock scene, and a breakthrough season for the San Francisco Giants. Through these three strands, Mitchell explores the rifts between the city’s pro-business and progressive-left politicians, the emergence of Dianne Feinstein as a political powerhouse, the increasing prominence of the city’s LGBT community, punk’s reinvigoration of the Bay Area’s radical cultural politics, and the ways that the Giants helped unify one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse cities in the nation.
 
Written from a unique insider’s perspective, San Francisco Year Zero deftly weaves together the personal and the political, putting a human face on the social upheavals that transformed a city. 

“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

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

LINCOLN A. MITCHELL is an adjunct associate professor of Political Science at Columbia University, where he also serves as an associate scholar in the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. He has authored many books on the former Soviet states, democracy, and baseball, including Baseball Goes West: How the Giants and Dodgers Shaped the Major Leagues (2018). He has also written extensively about San Francisco’s history in Instant City, Roads and Kingdoms, Parts Unknown and the New York Observer.

 

 

 

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San Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval, Punk Rock and a Third-Place Baseball Team By Lincoln A. Mitchell Cover Image
$41.95
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ISBN: 9781978807341
Published: Rutgers University Press - November 7th, 2019

San Francisco is a city of contradictions. It is one of the most socially liberal cities in America, but it also has some of the nation’s worst income inequality. It is a playground for tech millionaires, with an outrageously high cost of living, yet it also supports vibrant alternative and avant-garde scenes.