Lisa Riggin teaches history at California State University, Fullerton.
Lisa Riggin has penned an insightful, entertaining, and important book that reads almost like a novel. . . . A must-read for anyone interested in twentieth-century California history and the slippery relationship between politics, society, and culture. -Kathleen A. Cairns, author of The Case of Rose Bird: Gender, Politics, and the California Courts -- Kathleen A. Cairns With a novelist's eye for detail and pacing, Lisa Riggin recounts a chapter of San Francisco history that mixes vice and virtue as only the City by the Bay can. . . . It is a gripping narrative that chronicles America's struggle with an issue that remains a critical political battleground even today. -Ethan Rarick, author of California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown -- Ethan Rarick Lisa Riggin's San Francisco's Queen of Vice . . . tells with impressive research the story of abortionist Inez Brown Burns. -Marvin Olasky, World Magazine -- Marvin Olasky * World Magazine *