Currently Reading:
This is a self proclaimed “partisan book, dedicated to the San Diego Left, past and present, and it is meant to sting.” (P. 4) (You have been warned 
) Recommended to me by Jason Evans, I thought I’d look at it to learn from a perspective that I’ve not learned to look from in the past. The authors intend to give us a view other than rosey picture postcard image that we normally have of our city. Instead, they want to stimulate exploration of “San Diego’s controversial past, especially the neglected histories of labor and communities of color.”
Seems like it would be useful to see what the ills the “Left” are concerned with. Perhaps as we apply gospel thinking to these concerns we might inform ourselves and even find common concerns.
From the inside dust jacket:
This alternative civic history deconstructs the mythology of “America’s finest city,” exposing its true undergirdings of militarism, racism, and economic inequality. 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 voices of paradise’s forgotten working people and new immigrants.