emmadilemma commented on Imperial San Francisco by Gray A. Brechin
First published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both …
The preface to this 2006 edition is about how SF is a failed imperial city but here's why he wrote these things this way, and about the twin towers and the Gulf war and how he really wanted to write about NYC as the real imperial city but all this bombing got in the way, and I just can't. If he doesn't think what he wrote is relevant anymore, I can't be bothered to muck through it. DNF. Actually Did Not Start.