false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172537638m/187157.jpg 187157 2 <B>An anti-tourist guide that debunks San Diego's sunshine myth for locals and visitors alike.</B> <P>For fourteen million tourists each year, San Diego is the fun place in the sun that never breaks your heart. But America's eighth-largest city has a dark side. Behind Sea World, the zoo, the Gaslamp District, and the beaches of La Jolla hides a militarized metropolis, boasting the West Coast's most stratified economy and a tumultuous history of municipal corruption, virulent antiunionism, political repression, and racial injustice. Though its boosters tirelessly propagate an image of a carefree beach town, the real San Diego shares dreams and nightmares with its violent twin, Tijuana. <P>This alternative civic history deconstructs the mythology of "America's finest city." Acclaimed urban theorist Mike Davis documents the secret history of the domineering elites who have turned a weak city government into a powerful machine for private wealth. Jim Miller tells the story from the other side: chronicling the history of protest in San Diego from the Wobblies to today's "globalphobics." Kelly Mayhew, meanwhile, presents the voice of paradise's forgotten working people and new immigrants. The texts are vividly enhanced by Fred Lonidier's photographs. 180921 2003 Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See total:24|5:8|4:5|3:10|1:1| 24 91 50 7 4 2 false false Sun Aug 24 07:51:46 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 24 07:52:55 -0700 2008
San Diego has been described as Enron-by-the-Sea and a hotbed of corruption on a level that would give New Orleans a run. But what is rarely explored is how we got her...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Dec 06 05:54:22 -0800 2008 Wed Aug 05 09:09:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Jul 18 21:20:21 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 21:22:56 -0700 2008
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