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Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love Audiobook
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The critically acclaimed, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller—a gripping story of the strife and tragedy that led to San Francisco’s ultimate rebirth and triumph.
Salon founder David Talbot chronicles the cultural history of San Francisco and from the late 1960s to the early 1980s when figures such as Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin, Jim Jones, and Bill Walsh helped usher from backwater city to thriving metropolis.
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“He seeks to make sense of how San Francisco became a magnet for those who felt they didn’t fit elsewhere…Talbot takes the reader much deeper than cliché, exploring a San Francisco that tourists never discover.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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“A gritty corrective to our rosy memories…enthralling, news-driven history...smart and briskly paced tale.”
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“Exhaustive research yields penetrating character studies…Talbot clears the rainbow mist and brings San Francisco into sharp focus.”
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“Talbot presents gripping accounts of both crime sprees and football showdowns…A Comprehensive introduction to the era.”
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A 2013 Audie Award Finalist for History
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An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
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About David Talbot
David Talbot is the author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years and the acclaimed, national bestseller Season of the Witch. He is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Salon, a senior editor at Mother Jones magazine, and the features editor at the San Francisco Examiner. He has written for the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Time, and other major publications.
About Arthur Morey
Arthur Morey has won three AudioFile Magazine “Best Of” Awards, and his work has garnered numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and placed him as a finalist for two Audie Awards. He has acted in a number of productions, both off Broadway in New York and off Loop in Chicago. He graduated from Harvard and did graduate work at the University of Chicago. He has won awards for his fiction and drama, worked as an editor with several book publishers, and taught literature and writing at Northwestern University. His plays and songs have been produced in New York, Chicago, and Milan, where he has also performed.