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(More customer reviews)Anyone interested in political campaigns, big city newspapers and local politics should take a look at "The City and County," a fast-moving and convincing portrait of scandal and deceipt in always exciting modern day San Francisco. Longtime reporter Strupp apparently spent many years working in the Bay Area so he knows what he's writing about. He gives us convincing portraits of political consultants, local pols and two SF daily papers--plus a certain "independent weekly" headed by one Jimmy Min (inspired by the now legendary Ted Fang, by any chance??) The story really moves forward when a former police chief wins an upset race for mayor of San Francisco--with the help of a tough, gay, political consultant from New York--and the newspapers, and various other power brokers, attempt to bring him down, playing hardball for keeps. Recommended reading for media and political junkies!
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The twisting, turning story follows Billy Dale, San Francisco's most cunning, dirtiest, and most successful political consultant. A hard-bitten, gay ex-New Yorker, he reaches his sweetest victory on Election Day 1991 when former police chief Jack Callahan wins an underdog race for mayor.But the victory is not so sweet for the city's two daily newspapers, The San Francisco Bulletin and The San Francisco Jounal, who endorsed incumbent William Carlson and lost plenty of political clout when he was forced out.That sets the stage for a real roller-coaster ride as the newspapers battle for control of the new mayor and Dale fights to keep his City Hall power intact while navigating through real-life issues of police corruption, toxic pollution, and sexual scandal.
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