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Senior editor at The Atlantic, author of the forthcoming book, Powering the Dream, @alexismadrigal, & UC Berkeley visiting scholar.
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Out March 29 (Da Capo).
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"FRISCO it was called in that affection which prompts expression in diminutives. Shaken to shards in the dawn, gulped in part by a mad sea, swept by flame. Ruin covering agony, crowned by hunger, thirst, fever, pest. Death over all."
San Francisco, 1906: The City That Has Fallen
Often called “the best thing ever written about San Francisco” in the first half of the 20th century.