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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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One Hundred Years of the First Unitarian Church of San Francisco, 1850-1950
Author: Catalog of Printed Books
Author: Bancroft LibraryPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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The Pacific Unitarian
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: A Debonair Scoundrel
Author: Lately ThomasPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789121272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Originally 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.
The Bay of San Francisco
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Category : Alameda County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
California Historical Society Quarterly
Author: California Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Monthly Journal of the American Unitarian Association
Author: American Unitarian AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Unitarian churches
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Includes music.
The Unitarian
Author: Jabez Thomas SunderlandPublisher:
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Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Union Catalog of the Graduate Theological Union
Author: Graduate Theological Union. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
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