Season of the Witch
Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love by David Talbot is a sweeping history of San Francisco from the turbulent 1960s through the early 1980s, tracing the city’s transformation from a center of counterculture and idealism into a place shaken by violence, political upheaval, and profound social change. Through figures and events including the Summer of Love, the Zodiac killings, the rise of the gay rights movement, Jim Jones and Peoples Temple, the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk, and the emergence of a new San Francisco, Talbot tells the story of a city repeatedly reinventing itself—and of the people, movements, conflicts, and contradictions that shaped its modern identity.