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(More customer reviews)The place where I was born and grew up comes back to life once again in the vivid form of Kevin J. Mullen's memoir: THE EGG MAN'S SON: A SAN FRANCISCO IRISH LIFE. As chapter after chapter recounts where the author was and what he was doing at any given moment, so also are my own memories rekindled and, as are his, some with joy, some with sadness. All the while this is going on, the evolution of a great city is chronicled in such a way as to be of interest to readers living in towns and cities all across America. Both informative and entertaining, this is a book which belongs on your shelf among the finest in your collection. Unless, of course, you are reading and enjoying it even more the second time around, as I am. Hank Schoepp, Las Vegas, NV.
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In his memoir, retired San Francisco Deputy Police Chief Kevin Mullen relates what it was like growing up Irish in World War II-era San Francisco, amid sensational reports that motorists were being shot on the Golden Gate Bridge for "signaling with their headlights to Japanese submarines." And when, to the childish imagination of him and his friends, the German lady on Collingwood Street harbored wanted Nazis in her apartment house at the top of the hill. He describes coming of age in the working-class atmosphere of pre-1960s San Francisco and participating in the tail end of the saloon culture that had previously predominated the "city that was." He was member of the San Francisco police department during the great changes that rocked the city-and the nation-in the 60s and beyond. He offers one insider's view of that most turbulent era, revealing insights and information about the contentious issues of those days which cannot be found among the stories of those who made the "revolution."
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