Chapter 4: Spatial Politics, footnote 113, page 170 Ch4 fn. 113 p. 170 Tags: Discursive, Histories and Biographies, Anti-Monopoly, Politics Williams doesn't believe corruption played a role, but Ward McAfee presents a very strong case that it did. Williams, Democratic Party and California Politics, 40-46. Ward McAfee, Local Interests and Railroad Regulation in Nineteenth Century California (Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford, 1965), 164-168. William Issel and Robert W. Cherney, San Francisco, 1865-1932: Politics, Power and Urban Development (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), 130-132.
