Table of Contents

Preface 1. First Settlers 2. A Tale of Two Towns 3. Enter the Octopus 4. Urbanization 5. A Special Place 6. Boom and Bust 7. World War II Watershed 8. A Kind of Peace 9. The Heritage of the Sixties 10. Berkeley in an Age of Inequality Bibliography Index

About the Author

Charles Wollenberg, Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of History at Berkeley City College, is coeditor, with Marcia A. Eymann, of What's Going On? California and the Vietnam Era (UC Press) and author of Marinship at War: Shipbuilding and Social Change in Wartime Sausalito and Golden Gate Metropolis: Perspectives on Bay Area Regional History.

Reviews

"Good, credible writing." East Bay Express "Those many with a personal tie to Berkeley will devour this book with delight." California History