Season of the Witch

by David Talbot · 2012

Mentioned in 1 episodes across 1 podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast.

ISBN 9781439108215

About the book

Salon founder David Talbot chronicles the cultural history of San Francisco and from the late 1960s to the early 1980s when figures such as Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin, Jim Jones, and Bill Walsh helped usher from backwater city to thriving metropolis.

Where it comes up

Lex Fridman Podcast

#490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI · 2026-02-01
“I think I would say one of my one people I worked with is moving to SF and it's like I need to get a copy of the season of the witch which is a history of SF from like 1960 to 1985 which goes like the hippie revolution like they all the gays kind of taking over the city and that culture”
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