from Union Square Pr (May 5, 2009)
9781402756122 |
details & prices | 309 pages | 6.00 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.34 lbs | List price $24.95
About: When the news business was literally a matter of life and death
A real-life Barbary Coast, War of Words details the bloody birth of the San Francisco Chronicle, when verbal blows traded between two of the town’s most powerful men escalated into violence on the streets of 1880s San Francisco.