Reddit mentions of Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love

There's a great history book Season Of The Witch about 60s-80s San Francisco that gets into government infiltration of the counterculture, including the Black Panthers. And then there's the novel A Brief History Of Seven Killings about the assassination attempt on Bob Marley.

So hard to separate fact from fiction with this stuff... I'm with /u/BeachStoop in being v skeptical about conspiracy theories. Like yeah, that Dopey guest was so far out there - seems like it's a coping mechanism about the insecurity of not being totally in control.

See also: Hanlon's Razor - sometimes people aren't evil, they're just stupid.

Also check out https://www.atlasobscura.com/things-to-do/san-francisco-california.

And this is the best book I've read on recent SF history - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005C6FDFY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1


More for setting and mood - https://www.amazon.com/Cool-Gray-City-Love-Francisco-ebook/dp/B00D78R550/ref=pd_sim_351_2/146-5416982-8304814?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00D78R550&pd_rd_r=5a6b99cc-0483-4cac-b6d5-42a721756048&pd_rd_w=7ASVf&pd_rd_wg=I7akt&pf_rd_p=5abf8658-0b5f-405c-b880-a6d1b558d4ea&pf_rd_r=GQH5RN933EDG5VCJPFRT&psc=1&refRID=GQH5RN933EDG5VCJPFRT

David Talbot wrote https://www.amazon.com/Season-Witch-Enchantment-Terror-Deliverance-ebook/dp/B005C6FDFY

Salon founder David Talbot chronicles the cultural history of San Francisco and from the late 1960s to the early 1980s when figures such as Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin, Jim Jones, and Bill Walsh helped usher from backwater city to thriving metropolis.

http://www.amazon.com/Season-Witch-Enchantment-Terror-Deliverance-ebook/dp/B005C6FDFY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Cool, Gray City of Love brings together an exuberant combination of personal insight, deeply researched history, in-depth reporting, and lyrical prose to create an unparalleled portrait of San Francisco. Each of its 49 chapters explores a specific site or intersection in the city, from the mighty Golden Gate Bridge to the raunchy Tenderloin to the soaring sea cliffs at Land's End.

http://www.amazon.com/Cool-Gray-City-Love-Francisco-ebook/dp/B00D78R550/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1451757678&sr=1-1&keywords=cool+grey+city+of+love

Not a book, but this American Experiance episode is fantastic.

In 1957, decades before Steve Jobs dreamed up Apple or Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, a group of eight brilliant young men defected from the Shockley Semiconductor Company in order to start their own transistor business. Their leader was 29-year-old Robert Noyce, a physicist with a brilliant mind and the affability of a born salesman who would co-invent the microchip -- an essential component of nearly all modern electronics today, including computers, motor vehicles, cell phones and household appliances.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/silicon/

Also, not related to San Francisco directly, but focusing on California and the west, if you want to understand why California is the way it is today, this is on the list of essential reading material.

http://www.amazon.com/Cadillac-Desert-American-Disappearing-Revised/dp/0140178244