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  • Season of the Witch

  • Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love
  • By: David Talbot
  • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
  • Length: 16 hrs and 54 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Season of the Witch

By: David Talbot
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
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Audie Award Nominee, History, 2013

Season of the Witch is the first book to fully capture the dark magic of San Francisco in this breathtaking period, when the city radically changed itself - and then revolutionized the world. The cool gray city of love was the epicenter of the 1960s cultural revolution. But by the early 1970s, San Francisco’s ecstatic experiment came crashing down from its starry heights. The city was rocked by savage murder sprees, mysterious terror campaigns, political assassinations, street riots, and finally a terrifying sexual epidemic. No other city endured so many calamities in such a short time span.

David Talbot takes us deep into the riveting story of his city’s ascent, decline, and heroic recovery. He draws intimate portraits of San Francisco’s legendary demons and saviors: Charles Manson, Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army, Jerry Garcia, Janis Joplin, Bill Graham, Herb Caen, the Cockettes, Harvey Milk, Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, Joe Montana and the Super Bowl 49ers. He reveals how the city emerged from the trials of this period with a new brand of “San Francisco values”, including gay marriage, medical marijuana, immigration sanctuary, universal health care, recycling, renewable energy, consumer safety, and a living wage mandate. Considered radical when they were first introduced, these ideas have become the bedrock of decent society in many parts of the country, and exemplify the ways that the city now inspires us toward a live-and-let-live tolerance, a shared sense of humanity, and an openness to change.

As a new generation of activists and dreamers seeks its own path to a more enlightened future, Season of the Witch - with its epic tale of the wild and bloody birth of San Francisco values - offers both inspiration and cautionary wisdom.

©2012 David Talbot (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
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Fascinating overview of an era

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A really engaging overview of the swirling cultural changes in the USA, looked at through the story of a city that became the epicentre of so much of that history. Particularly interesting to me was the look at how and why the hippy "summer of love" unravelled, and the wider cost to San Francisco's infrastructure that thousands of runaway teens flooding into an unprepared city had, particularly when drugs became the driving force of the movement.
Very listenable - I re-listened to it twice already.

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informing and entertaining.

I loved everything about it. I wished there was more. I couldn't stop listening.thanks

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