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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781784780227)
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xLos Angeles Times Bestseller
This riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a "history from below, in the very best sense" as it celebrates the "grassroots heroes and struggles" of the social movements of the era (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes). "Authoritative and impressive." --Los Angeles Times
"Monumental." --Guardian Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power--where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of "Asian American" as a political identity. It was a locus of the antiwar movement, gay liberation movement, and women's movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture. Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of interviews with principal figures, as well as the authors' storied personal histories as activists. Following on from Davis's award-winning L.A. history, City of Quartz, Set the Night on Fire is a historical tour de force, delivered in scintillating and fiercely beautiful prose.
Author: Mike Davis, Jon Wiener
ISBN-10: 1784780227
ISBN-13: 9781784780227
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 04/14/2020
Pages: 800
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.35lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 2.40d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2020
Publishers Weekly 04/20/2020
This riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a "history from below, in the very best sense" as it celebrates the "grassroots heroes and struggles" of the social movements of the era (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes). "Authoritative and impressive." --Los Angeles Times
"Monumental." --Guardian Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power--where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of "Asian American" as a political identity. It was a locus of the antiwar movement, gay liberation movement, and women's movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture. Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of interviews with principal figures, as well as the authors' storied personal histories as activists. Following on from Davis's award-winning L.A. history, City of Quartz, Set the Night on Fire is a historical tour de force, delivered in scintillating and fiercely beautiful prose.
Author: Mike Davis, Jon Wiener
ISBN-10: 1784780227
ISBN-13: 9781784780227
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 04/14/2020
Pages: 800
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.35lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 2.40d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2020
Publishers Weekly 04/20/2020
By Mike Davis
xMike Davis is the author of City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, Buda's Wagon, and Planet of Slums. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Diego. Jon Wiener is a longtime Contributing Editor at the Nation and host and producer of Start Making Sense, the magazine's weekly podcast. He is an Emeritus Professor of U.S. history at UC Irvine, and his books include Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files and How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America. He lives in Los Angeles.
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