{"id":847,"date":"2013-05-28T09:26:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T16:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=847"},"modified":"2013-05-29T13:50:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T20:50:52","slug":"the-new-book-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"The new book is here . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Available at Amazon and San Diego bookstores.<\/p><\/div>\n

San Diego today is a vibrant and bustling coastal city, but it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always so. The city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s transformation from a rough-hewn border town and frontier port to a vital military center was marked by growing pains and political clashes. Civic highs and criminal lows have defined San Diego\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rise through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries into a preeminent Sun Belt city. Historian Richard W. Crawford recalls the significant events and one-of-a-kind characters like benefactor Frank \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Booze\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Beyer, baseball hero Albert Spalding and novelist Scott O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Dell. Join Crawford for a collection that recounts how San Diego yesterday laid the foundation for the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bright future.<\/p>\n

The book is\u00c2\u00a0 available at Amazon<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and in bookstores starting today.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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