San Francisco, 1865-1932: Politics, Power, and Urban Development by WILLIAM ISSEL and ROBERT CHERNY. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1986; xiii + 294 pp., tables, photographs, bibliography, index; clothbound, $35.00. Cleveland: A Tradition of Reform, DAVID D. VAN TASSEL and JOHN J. GRABOWSKI, eds. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1986; viii + 218 pp., photographs, index; clothbound, $27.50. The Twentieth Century American City: Problem, Promise, and Reality by JON C. TEAFORD. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986; x + 177 pp., bibliographical essay, index; clothbound, $20.00; paperbound, $8.95. Metropolitan America: Urban Life and Urban Policy in the United States, 1940-1980 by KENNETH FOX. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1986; xiii + 274 pp., tables, photographs, index; clothbound, $27.50.