Left Coast City: Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975-1991

by Richard Edward Deleon

Book Overview

When Art Agnos campaigned for mayor of San Francisco in 1987, he articulated and defended the "left" isms--liberalism, environmentalism, and populism. He won.

Seeing Agnos as a defender of slowgrowth vs. progrowth, the city's progressives had high hopes. But to their disappointment, in the wake of the passage of Proposition M--the most restrictive growth control legislation of any large U.S. city--Agnos supported waterfront development and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070060555X
• ISBN13: 9780700605552
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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