Tenderloin: Sex, Crime and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco Sociological Study of Medicine from Plato to Proust

from Plato to Proust

part love-letter to the past and the future

But it's not the mom-approved playboy doctor or the wealthy engineer who catch Nar's eye--it's Erebuni

and her one-liners zing off the page

Tenderloin: Sex, Crime and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco Sociological Study of Medicine from Plato to ProustNamed for a part of the city where bribes bought police the highest grade beef, San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood remains an island of primarily low income, ethnically diverse residents in a city of ever increasing wealth. How has it survived? Randy Shaw searches for answers in this powerful account of the Tenderloin from its post quake rebuilding in 1907 through today. The Tenderloin fought back against the establishment time and time again.