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The Journal -- Awakenings -- Daisy -- Dreams -- James Crow -- Chauncey Hobart -- Across That Bridge -- Freedom Ride -- Dagger Strokes -- The Slaughter Pen -- The Fort Pillow Boys -- Fort Pickering -- Snakes -- Rebs and Refugees -- Licked -- War Criminal Park -- Owen -- Texas Burning -- Jeremiah Webster -- Glory Bound -- The Gillette Mansion -- Alleyton -- Caroline -- Austin City Limits -- Lily -- Wild Geese -- Emma -- Seas and Stars -- Charlottesville -- Remembering

This is the first comprehensive biography of Willie Brown, one of California's most enduring and controversial politicians. Audacious, driven, talented--Brown has dominated California politics longer and more completely than any other public figure. James Richardson, a senior writer for The Sacramento Bee, takes us from Brown's childhood, through his years as Speaker of the State Assembly, to his election as San Francisco's mayor. Along the way we get a riveting, behind-the-scenes account of three decades of California politics