From the Publisher;

Why is Berkeley famous worldwide? Because of its inventiveness, its liberal attitudes, and its artists and writers. J. Stitt Wilson, Berkeley's first Socialist mayor, once said, "Any kind of a day in Berkeley seems sweeter than the best day anywhere else."

In It Came From Berkeley, Dave Weinstein goes about showing us just that. He tells the story of this unique city from the beginning - the 1840s - to present day by focusing on the events and people that made Berkeley into the famous - and infamous - place that it continues to be and how those same events then influenced the rest of the planet.

More than any other general book about Berkeley, It Came From Berkeley brings the history of the town and the university to life with anecdotes that are amusing, surprising, sometimes shocking, and often touching

From Builders Booksource;

Don't let the silly looking cover put you off.  This book has a lot of very interesting history that took place in Berkeley.  Did you know that Berkeley invented listener-sponsored radio, California cuisine, the lie detector, the atom bomb, the wet suit, the hot tub, and yuppies; that pioneered independent living for disabled people, school integration, free speech, women's rights, the preservation of urban wild lands, modern-day crime fighting, and Prohibition?

About the Author;

Dave Weinstein, a native of Long Island, New York, received his undergraduate degree in art history at Columbia University in 1973, and then studied journalism at UC Berkeley. He has lived in the Bay Area for thirty years, and spent twenty years as a reporter and editor for daily newspapers. Dave has written two books, Signature Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area, and the text for a photo book Berkeley Rocks. He writes for the magazine CA Modern, and for four years has been writing a popular series of architect profiles for the San Francisco Chronicle.

24 pages, hardcover. Gibbs Smith, (September,2008)