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[2016]
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In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones' infamous Altamont concert in San Francisco, the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic 1960s. The product of 20 years of research and dozens of interviews with many key players, including medical staff, Hells Angels members, the stage crew, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
A thrilling account of the Altamont Festival, and the dark side of the '60s.
If Woodstock tied the ideals of the '60s together, Altamont unraveled them.
In Just a Shot Away, writer and critic Saul Austerlitz tells the story of "Woodstock West," where the Rolling Stones hoped to end their 1969 American tour triumphantly with the help of the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, and 300,000 fans. Instead, the concert featured a harrowing series of...
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Pub. Date
1999.
Description
"San Francisco's Emmanuel Baptist church was built amid the hollows, odd lights and drifting fog of what had been a burial ground."--BOOK JACKET. "Rumors of ghosts and orgies swirl around the church. Worse is the repeated, brutal fact of suicide and murder. The church's first pastor severed his own throat with a straight razor, the second pastor shot himself, the third murdered the publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle."--BOOK JACKET. "The fourth...
4) Magnum force
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Detective Harry Callahan is pitted against an unexpected lawbreaker: one who carries a badge. Sharpshooting rookie motorcycle cops have turned vigilante, rubbing out crooks the courts can't touch. Their real enemy is the system. Unfortunately for them, the system is what Harry is sworn to protect.
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