Book about Los Angeles in the 1960s with a focus on civil rights
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Book Jacket
Author
Mike Davis, Jon Wiener
Audio read by
Ron Butler
Language
English
Genre
History
Publisher
Verso Books (print), Audible Studios (audiobook)
Publication date
2020 (Hardcover, Kindle, and Audiobook)
Publication place
United States
Media type
Print, Kindle, Audiobook
Pages
800pp., 25 hours and 25 minutes audio.
ISBN
978-1784780227
Website
Official book website, Set the Night on Fire at Verso Books.
Angela Davis at UCLA (October 1969) to give her first lecture.Police violence during the Watts Uprising (August 1965)Father William DuBay (1968)
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties is a movement history by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener published in April 2020. The authors combine archival research and personal interviews with their own experiences in the civil rights and anti-war movements to tell the story of this transformative decade.[1][2] The book's purpose is not to present a comprehensive history of 1960s Los Angeles but to dispel the mythology surrounding this era and replace it with the neglected history of the populist social and cultural movements that shifted power away from an entrenched elite and opened up opportunities for radical egalitarian change.[3]
Mike Davis (1946–2022) was an American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. Jon Wiener (born 1944) is an American historian and journalist based in Los Angeles.
^Ehrenreich, Ben (April 22, 2020). "Set the Night on Fire by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener review – the real LA in the 1960s". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
^* Dana Goodyear (April 24, 2020). "Mike Davis in the Age of Catastrophe". The New Yorker. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
^Jerald Podair (April 14, 2020). "The Fire and the Fizzle". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
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