The (California) Dream Is Over…  I’m a native Californian, born and raised in Los Angeles, educated at UC-Santa Cruz, and a four-decade resident of San Francisco — where my SF-born wife and I raised our two sons. This is where I started Salon — in defiant opposition to the parochial, New York-based media empire. This is where I wrote my bestselling books about San Francisco as the tumultuous center of America’s cultural revolution (“Season of the Witch”) and the dark side of American power (“Brothers” and “The Devil’s Chessboard”) — provocative studies that could never have been written by historians … Continue reading David Talbot on FB