Under the Perfect Sun. The San Diego Tourists Never See

Three muckraking essays on the underside of San Diegocover the city's historically recent turn from red to blue while highlighting a new cast of villains and tenacious activists fighting for social justice-now in a new, updated, twentieth-anniversary edition. "Behind the luminous veneer of San Diego, there is also a powerful story of radical activism and resistance-vital inspiration for our times."-Angela Y.
DavisSan Diego is a paradise in the sun for over thirty million tourists each year, free of the urban ills that afflict other cities.  But America's eighth largest metropolis has a dark side of militarization, economic inequality, municipal corruption, and racial injustice. In Under the Perfect Sun, Mike Davis outlines the making and re-making of San Diego by a series of largely unchecked local plutocrats, from the snarling Republicans of old to what he calls "high tech .