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    This Date in San Francisco - John C. Ralston, Author

    Presented by Kepler's Bookstore at Kepler's Books

    January 26, 2012

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    This Date in San Francisco - John C. Ralston, Author
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    This Date in San Francisco: 366 Days in the History of Our Fascinating Beloved City has twelve chapters, one for each month, and 366 entries, one for each calendar date of the year, plus nine more entries under "Some Other Dates." Many entries are memorable and highly significant--April 18, 1906, for example, the great Earthquake and Fire. Some are less significant, but all are diverting and/or amusing. A reader might...

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    This Date in San Francisco: 366 Days in the History of Our Fascinating Beloved City has twelve chapters, one for each month, and 366 entries, one for each calendar date of the year, plus nine more entries under "Some Other Dates." Many entries are memorable and highly significant--April 18, 1906, for example, the great Earthquake and Fire. Some are less significant, but all are diverting and/or amusing. A reader might flip through This Date daily just to see what happened in San Francisco on a given date. This Date in San Francisco also takes a place as a reference work alongside the many other books on San Francisco; this small, young, rowdy city that captured the world's imagination and is still a center of innovation, unconventionality, and beauty.

    John C. Ralston is a third-generation San Franciscan whose great-grandfather arrived in The City from Scotland in the early 1860s. As a youngster in the inner Sunset District, John was fascinated with his city's history. After taking a degree in history from the University of California, Berkeley, with an emphasis on Russia and the Soviet Union, he studied for a teaching credential at San Francisco State University. Assigned the late Professor Walton Bean's Boss Ruef's San Francisco for a course on California, John's fascination with his city's history was rekindled. Since then, John has collected articles, books, ephemera, and photos of his city. After This Date in San Francisco, John is completing a biography of San Francisco editor Fremont Older.


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