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Searching for a home and a homerun--an overlooked era of Giants and San Francisco history The San Francisco Giants have been one of the most successful franchises in baseball in the twenty-first century as evidenced by the three World Series Championship flags flying in the breeze over Oracle Park, one of the most beautiful baseball venues in the world. However, the team was not always so successful on or off the field. The Giants and Their Ci...

San Francisco is a city of contradictions. Socially liberal, but some of America's worst income inequality. The playground of tech millionaires, yet it also supports vibrant alternative and avant-garde scenes. So how did the city get this way? Lincoln Mitchell traces the roots of the current situation back to 1978.

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Lincoln A. Mitchell is Associate Research Scholar at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University and author of Uncertain Democracy: U.S. Foreign Policy and Georgia's Rose Revolution, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Uncertain DemocracyU.S. Foreign Policy and Georgia's Rose RevolutionLincoln A. Mitchell"Essential reading."--Mikheil Saakashvili, President of Georgia"Mitchell has a keen understanding of Georgian politics, the country's major actors, and the broader regional and historical context in which Georgian politics takes place. This book is particularly valuable because of its discussion of the role of the United States and the West more broadly in d...