Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See, Updated Edition

A muckraking history of San Diego that covers the city’s historically recent shift from politically conservative to politically progressive while also outlining a new cast of right-wing villains and tenacious activists fighting for social justice.

San Diego is a sunny paradise for over thirty million tourists each year. But America’s eighth largest metropolis conceals a vast dark side of militarization, economic inequality, municipal corruption, and racial injustice. This updated and expanded edition of Under the Perfect Sun contains three muckraking essays that expose the underbelly of this city and interrogate its recent political turn.