The emerging progressive forces clashed with the city’s longstanding Catholic power structure, and the fallout included nothing less than abduction, assassinations, and mass suicide. In an interview with Publishers Weekly, Talbot explained why the title suits his retrospective of San Francisco between the years 19: “The song caught that paranoid and eerie aspect of the 1960s, so it was appropriate to the mood of much of my book.” While “eerie” may seem an unlikely term to characterize the upheavals of the 1960s, as “ground zero” for the era’s cultural revolution, San Francisco experienced a striking number of strange events. David Talbot took the title of his 2012 non-fiction book, Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love, from Donovan’s psychedelic rock song of the same name (subtitle notwithstanding).
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