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City On The Edge: Technology, Politics, And The Fight For The Soul Of San Francisco
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The Definitive And Captivating (Marty Baron, Author Of Collision Of Power) Story Of San FranciscoS Meteoric Transformation Into A Global Capital Of Technology, And How The Same Creative And Political Forces That Gave Rise To Its Boom Nearly Engineered Its Collapse.At The Dawn Of The 1990S, San Francisco Was A Beautiful If Troubled MidSized Metropolis Still Reeling From The Aids Epidemic And The Lome Prieta Earthquake, Its Economy Stuck In A PostIndustrial Slump. Once Considered To Be The Capital Of The American West, And Later The Beating Heart Of The Global Counterculture, The Mythic, FogShrouded City At The Edge Of The Continent Faced An Uncertain Future.But In That Very Moment, A Band Of FreeThinking Technologists, Immersed In The Creative Zeitgeist Of The City, Were Inventing The Contemporary Internet. San Francisco Would Undergo An Epic Political, Social, And Economic Transformation As It Claimed The Title Of Tech Capital Of The World. Local Politicians, Including Gavin Newsom And Kamala Harris, Advanced To The National Stage. An Unlikely Marriage Of Underground Culture And Technological Optimism Gave Rise To The Annual Reverie Known As Burning Man.This Should Be A Happy Story For San Francisco. But As The CityS Tech Economy Roared, A Host Of Urban Ills Lurked In The Shadows: Homelessness, Drug Addiction, Mental Illness, And A Crippling Lack Of New Housing. The CityS Famous LeftWing Political Establishment Struggled To Get Its Arms Around The Problems, Becoming A Punching Bag For President Trump And The New Right. When The Pandemic Arrived In 2020, It Created New Crises And Laid Old Ones Bare, Shattering A City Family That Had Ruled Political For More Than Thirty Years And Prompting A Sharp Rightward Turn By The Once Liberal Tech Industry.Jonahtan Weber Saw It All Up Close As A Reporter And Newsroom Leader. He Offers A Sweeping History Of A City That Rose To Dizzying Heights, Only To Be Undone By The Heedlessness Of A Tech Industry It Did So Much To Spawn And Politicians Who Had Lost The Plot. Drawing On Two Hundred Interviews With Mayors, Ceos, Activists, Investors, And Artists, City On The Edge Is More Than A Simple Chronicle Of A City. ItS The Story Of A War Waged For The Heart Of San FranciscoOne That Anticipated The Culture Wars Raging Around The World. Its Outcome Would Have An Impact Far Beyond The CityS Famed Golden Gates.
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