Under The Perfect Sun by Mike Davis

Under The Perfect Sun by Mike Davis

For fourteen million tourists each year, San Diego is the fun place in the sun that never breaks your heart. But America’s eighth-largest city has a dark side. Behind Sea World, the zoo, the Gaslamp District, and the beaches of La Jolla hides a militarized metropolis, boasting the West Coast’s most stratified economy and a tumultuous history of municipal corruption, virulent antiunionism, political repression, and racial injustice. Though its boosters tirelessly propagate an image of a carefree beach town, the real San Diego shares dreams and nightmares with its violent twin, Tijuana. This alternative civic history deconstructs the mythology of “America’s finest city.” Acclaimed urban theorist Mike Davis documents the secret history of the domineering elites who have turned a weak city government into a powerful machine for private wealth. Jim Miller tells the story from the other side: chronicling the history of protest in San Diego from the Wobblies to today’s “globalphobics.” Kelly Mayhew, meanwhile, presents the voice of paradise’s forgotten working people and new immigrants. The texts are vividly enhanced by Fred Lonidier’s photographs.

"Definitely not on the Approved Reading List of the Convention & Visitors Bureau. . . A provocative, in-your-suntanned-face history of San Diego." —San Diego Union-Tribune

"A left-leaning, fascinating history of San Diego that debunks the notion of America’s Finest City." —San Diego Magazine

MacArthur fellow Mike Davis is the author of several books, including City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, Dead Cities, and—with Kelly Mayhew and Jim Miller—Under the Perfect Sun. He lives in San Diego.

Kelly Mayhew is a professor in the English department and honors program at San Diego City College. She is a co-author, with Mike Davis and Jim Miller, of Under the Perfect Sun (The New Press) and, with Jim Miller, of Better to Reign in Hell (The New Press). She and Alys Masek co-edited Mamas and Papas. She lives in San Diego.

Jim Miller is a professor of English at San Diego City College.

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ISBN 13	9781565849808
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Titel	Under The Perfect Sun
Autor	Mike Davis
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	The New Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2005-03-02
Seitenanzahl	418
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