One Hundred Years of the First Unitarian Church of San Francisco, 1850-1950
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 80
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Total Pages: 80
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 712
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 818
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Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2018-04-03
Total Pages: 694
ISBN-13: 1789121272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1962, this book tells the flamboyant story of Abe Ruef and San Francisco’s infamous era of graft. In the year 1906, San Francisco was rocked by two calamitous earthquakes. Nature herself was responsible for one; a man named Ruef was responsible for the other. Abraham Ruef (1864-1936), known as Abe Ruef, was a rogue of innumerable refinements. A classical scholar, a wit, a bon vivant, he was also a political boss who not only picked the city’s officials—among them, “Handsome Gene” Schmitz, San Francisco’s “bassoon mayor”—but picked the city’s pockets as well. When he was finally arraigned for graft, Ruef attempted to appoint himself District Attorney to prosecute the case! In A Debonair Scoundrel, Lately Thomas reconstructs the little known but fantastic career and its gaudy, dramatic setting: a city thrown into wild disorder; fighting in the courts reeking with corruption; kidnappings, and flying bullets with overtones of slapstick comedy and suspense. The men who saw to Ruef’s undoing were relics of a bygone West: millionaire Rudolph Spreckels, who tried to reform his own class; Fremont Older, the Evening Bulletin crusading editor—and others, such as Teddy Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst. Their encounter with Abe Ruef is wittily described by Lately Thomas, author of The Vanishing Evangelist, who has brought his magnificently creative gifts to a book as brilliant and rambunctious as the fabulous era he describes.
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 436
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 1072
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 728
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 840
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 630
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 238
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