Eric Mankin Strategies: You Can Win City Hall, Mother Jones, VI, no. X, December, 1981, p. 66, 1981, 1940s
"This is not a humble statement, certainly. Can it be a true one? A little social history is needed to help evaluate it, as Shearer and Goldway walk, holding hands, from city hall to a nearby restaurant, to make their argument. Forty years ago Santa Monica was a staid, Republican suburb, depicted by Raymond Chandler in his mysteries (under the name "Bay City") as a master repository of hypocritical suburban corruption, a place that could be bought whole, "box and tissue paper."