Set the Night on Fire : : L.a. in the Sixties
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A magisterial, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the SixtiesLos Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Powerwhere 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 womens 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 Daviss 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.
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PUBLISHED
London : Verso, [2020]
Year Published: 2020
Description: 788 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781784780227
1784780227
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Wiener, Jon
SUBJECTS
Nineteen sixties.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.