Under The Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See

Under The Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See by Mayhew, Kelly. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781565848320.

This text deconstructs the mythology of San Diego, Americas finest city, exposing its true undergirdings of militarism, racism and economic inequality. Mike Davis documents the domineering private interests that have consistently overridden the citys weak government. Jim Miller chronicles the history of protest in San Diego. Kelly Mayhew gives oral-historical portraits of the citys forgotten working people and new immigrants. and the other of local photographer Fred Londiniers shots of union activists and the militarization of San Diego. Local architects have provided social-economic maps of the city.