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Mike Davis

Set the Night on Fire

L.A. in the Sixties

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Histories of the US sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an 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?and home to the Chicano walkouts and Moratorium, as well as birthplace of ?Asian America' as a political identity, base of the antiwar movement, and of course, centre 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, scores of interviews with principa… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Wiener, Jon
  • ISBN: 978-1-83976-122-5
  • EAN: 9781839761225
  • Produktnummer: 34591082
  • Verlag: Verso Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 800 S.
  • Masse: 368 g
  • Gewicht: 368

Über den Autor


Mike Davis is the author of several books including City of Quartz, The Monster at Our Door, Buda's Wagon, and Planet of Slums. He is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award.Jon Wiener is Host and Producer of Start Making Sense, the Nation's weekly podcast. He is an Emeritus Professor of US history at UC Irvine. His most recent book is How We Forgot the Cold War.

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