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"San Francisco Year Zero" with Lincoln Mitchell
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San Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval, Punk Rock, and a Third-Place Baseball Team with Lincoln Mitchell
Special Roundtable Guests: Jennifer Blowdryer and Kenneth Sherrill
A wide-ranging conversation touching on San Francisco in the 1970s, George Moscone, Harvey Milk, Dan White, urban America, political campaigns, city government, the San Francisco Giants leaving the city, segregation, diversity, bubbles, Dianne Feinstein, Jello Biafra, the Dead Kennedys, the punk rock scene, Joe Dirt, East Bay Ray, David Peel, the 1978 Giants, being a gay elected official in the 1970s, and Reggie Jackson’s role in reforming the judiciary.
Lincoln Mitchell is an adjunct associate professor of Political Science at Columbia University, where he also serves as an associate scholar in the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. He has authored many books on the former Soviet states, democracy, and baseball, including Baseball Goes West: How the Giants and Dodgers Shaped the Major Leagues and Will Big League Baseball Survive. He has also written extensively about San Francisco’s history in Instant City, Roads and Kingdoms, Parts Unknown and the New York Observer.
Jennifer Blowdryer got her name from singing in The Blowdryer in 1978. They played in San Francisco at the Mabuhay Gardens and The Deaf Club. She published her first book, Modern English, a photo-illustrated trendy slang dictionary with Last Gasp in 1984, and moved to New York City the same year on a fellowship to the Columbia Writing Division. She just finished a new album called She’s Got The Weirdness, and her next book is slated for Spring 2020, with Pedestrian Press, working title of The 86ed Project.
Kenneth Sherrill is Professor Emeritus at Hunter College and the City University of New York graduate school. In 1977, he became the first openly gay elected official in New York. He is the author of Power, Policy and Participation, as well as Gays and the Military. His current book in progress, Identity and Consciousness in LGBT Political Behavior, is expected to be completed next year. Ken is also the author of articles, papers and reviews in various scholarly journals.
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