Hidden San Francisco

'With the city awash these days with more and more newcomers, Hidden San Francisco is more vital than ever for keeping us all connected to the wild, weird, and radical histories that make this place so special'

-- Susan Stryker, trans activist and gender academic

'San Francisco is long overdue for a history like this! Smart and accessible, this is a book that everyone who has left a piece of their heart in the city needs to read'

-- Barbara Berglund Sokolov, historian at Presidio Trust

'The history of San Francisco I've been waiting for. It not only reorients our conceptions of the past, it gives us walking tour itineraries so we can viscerally experience how we are participants in the region's remaking'

-- Sean Burns, writer and filmaker

'Brings erudition, curiosity and passionate progressivism to a remarkably wide range of subjects - from the city's profaned natural glories, to little-known episodes in its labor history'

-- Gary Kamiya, writer, historian and tour guide to San Francisco

'Unlike your conventional guidebooks telling you where to shop, eat, and be entertained, this is a dissenter's guidebook that invites you into a holistic view of the city'

-- Peter Booth Wiley, publisher and author of The National Trust Guide to San Francisco

'Few people know the streets of San Francisco as well as Chris Carlsson. Sadly, gentrification is fast ripping the heart out of a city that generations of artists, immigrants, and working-class radicals have made into a unique and wondrous place. This book is call to arms to renew the city again'

-- Peter Cole, author of Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area

'Every city needs and deserves a Chris Carlsson'

-- Jon Christensen, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

'Scores of sparkling vignettes - from Mission Rock to the Haight, Balmy Alley to Telegraph Hill - illuminate the city with the torch of social criticism and the sharp lens of a local sage'

-- Richard Walker, author of Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area

'An original, vivid people's history of the nation's 'Left Coast City'. Photos, maps, and self-guided tours of over one hundred of the most important and iconic historic places and spaces bring to life the authors' beautifully crafted and well-informed San Francisco stories'

-- Bill Issel, Professor Emeritus of History, San Francisco State Univer