Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
ISBN-13:
9781784780227
ISBN-10:
1784780227
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Mike Davis, Jon Wiener
Publication date:
2020
Publisher:
Verso
Format:
Hardcover
800 pages
Category:
State & Local
,
United States History
,
Americas History
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ISBN-13:
9781784780227
ISBN-10:
1784780227
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Mike Davis, Jon Wiener
Publication date:
2020
Publisher:
Verso
Format:
Hardcover
800 pages
Category:
State & Local
,
United States History
,
Americas History
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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties (ISBN-13: 9781784780227 and ISBN-10: 1784780227), written by authors
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A magisterial, kaleidoscopic, riveting history of Los Angeles in the Sixties
Histories of the sixties in the United States invariably overlook Southern California, but Los Angeles was the epicenter of that decade’s political and social earthquake. L.A. 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, 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.
Histories of the sixties in the United States invariably overlook Southern California, but Los Angeles was the epicenter of that decade’s political and social earthquake. L.A. 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, 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.
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