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Date: June 6, 2003
Contact: J. Turner Banks
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Mayor's death stuns city
—Ralph Appezzato, 67, apparently shot himself, police say
This sad headline is from the Tuesday, September 17, 2002 Oakland Tribune. The article stated that the Alameda, California mayor was suffering from cancer, but speculated that depression might have been more of an issue than the cancer.
The Truth is Stranger than Fiction.
On the first page of the recently released novel, INSIDE THE FALL, San Francisco's first African American mayor hurls himself from a fifth floor balcony in the rotunda of City Hall. From inside the fall the rest of the novel unfolds revealing a gripping cautionary tale of greed, ambition, and misplaced loyalties. The PRIMARY COLORS of big city politics, INSIDE THE FALL is an insiders look at San Francisco government and its ongoing issues concerning the HOMELESS and the mayor's homosexual affair in the country's richest city.
First time author, Terry E. Hill, relocated to the Bay Area to serve as the Executive Director of The Hamilton Family Center (HFC), a shelter and transitional housing program for families in San Francisco. After leaving HFC, Terry served as Director of The Mayors Office On Homelessness from 1997 to 1999 for the City and County of San Francisco. In this role he advised the Mayor, County Supervisors and City Departments on homelessness and poverty policy.
INSIDE THE FALL, Terry E. Hill, ReGeJe Press isbn 09639147-2-3 $15.00
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