# Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties - Hardcover

by **Mike Davis** (Author), **Jon Wiener** (Author)

**_Los Angeles Times_ Bestseller  
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**This riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a "history from below, in the very best sense" as it celebrates the "grassroots heroes and struggles" of the social movements of the era (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of _Natural Causes_).**

**"Authoritative and impressive." --_Los Angeles Times  
_"Monumental." --_Guardian_**

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 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.

### Author Biography

**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.

**Jon Wiener** is a longtime Contributing Editor at the _Nation_ and host and producer of Start Making Sense, the magazine's weekly podcast. He is an Emeritus Professor of U.S. history at UC Irvine, and his books include _Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files_ and _How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America_. He lives in Los Angeles.

**Number of Pages:** 800

**Dimensions:** 2.4 x 9.2 x 6.4 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** April 14, 2020

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