RSB Books
510-524-1683
July, 2007
New from RSB
Books
Eccentrics, Heroes, and Cutthroats of Old Berkeley
by Richard
Schwartz
While the city of
Berkeley, California is widely known as the home of remarkable
individuals (from cutting edge entrepreneurs and Nobel Prize
winners to visionary social critics and hippie clowns) the story
of its iconoclastic culture begins for many with the historic
social movements of the 1960s.
In Eccentrics,
Heroes and Cutthroats of Old Berkeley (July 15, 2007), author
Richard Schwartz reveals that legendary personalities have been
at the center of Berkeley life since its founding. Focusing on
the period 1850 to 1925, Schwartz brings to life Berkeley's
defining men and women &endash; squatters and speculators;
missionaries and mystics; vendors, inventors and industrialists.
The result is not only an authoritative history that gives
meaning to the streets of Berkeley we walk today, but also a
delightful storyteller's anthology, full of humor, drama,
sadness and hard-earned wisdom.
"Combining the
research skills of a careful historian with the flair of a
yarn-spinner, Richard Schwartz brings early Berkeley alive with
such vibrancy and immediacy that you might imagine he had
witnessed it first-hand."
-Malcolm
Margolin, publisher of Heyday Books
Richard Schwartz
is a California historian and author of Earthquake Exodus, 1906: Berkeley
Responds to the San Francisco Refugees, Berkeley 1900: Daily
Life at the Turn of the Century and other regional
history books. He lives in Berkeley where he also works as a
building contractor.
Publication date:
August 1, 2007
ISBN
978-0-9678204-2-2 $24.95 Trade paper edition
ISBN
978-0-9678204-3-9 $39.95 Cloth edition
