Description
Los Angeles Times Bestseller Authoritative and impressive. -Los Angeles Times
Monumental. -Guardian A magisterial, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the Sixties 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 awardwinning 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
Publisher: Verso
Published: 04/14/2020
Pages: 800
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.35lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 2.40d
ISBN13: 9781784780227
ISBN10: 1784780227
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Civil Rights
- History | Social History
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
Monumental. -Guardian A magisterial, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the Sixties 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 awardwinning 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
Publisher: Verso
Published: 04/14/2020
Pages: 800
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.35lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 2.40d
ISBN13: 9781784780227
ISBN10: 1784780227
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Civil Rights
- History | Social History
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
About the Author
Mike 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.