The murders that made us : how vigilantes, hoodlums, mob bosses, serial killers, and cult leaders built the San Francisco Bay Area

Calhoun, Bob, author.

Book 2021

"In The Murders That Made Us, the story of the San Francisco Bay Area unfolds through its most violent and depraved acts. From the city's earliest days, where vigilantes hung perps from buildings and newspaper publishers shot it out on Market Street, to the kidnapping of Patty Hearst and the Zodiac Killer, crime has made the people of San Francisco who they are. Murder and mayhem are intertwined with the city's art, music, and politics. The Great...

Item Details & Discovery

Explore Topics & Themes:

Murder California San Francisco Bay Area History

Murder Social aspects California San Francisco Bay Area History

San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) History

More in this Genre:

Case studies

View technical details & catalog information

ISBN:

9781770415492
1770415491

Description:

321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-321)

Contents:

Introduction: A short history of the ongoing end of San Francisco
My mother, the murder suspect
Vigilance!
The fourth estate
Gangs of the Barbary Coast
Official misconduct
Popular attractions
The state-sanctioned lynch mob
Chicago to the bay
No parts lying together in one place
Urban renewal
When the garden flowers, baby, are dead
Zodiac adjacent
The murder capital of the world
Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people
Killing Gerald Ford
Rainbows and leather
The Golden Dragon massacre
The last victims of Jonestown
The white working class
The face of the girl in room 24
The hucksters
The outside lands
The Night Stalker is born
The scene
Upward mobility
Two-fisted liberal
The technological divide
A real fixer-upper
The last days of Tom Guido

Control Number:

3015147

View in Classic Catalog