history, City of Quartz, Set the Night on Fire is a fascinating historical corrective, delivered in scintillating and fiercely elegant prose. in the Sixties by Mike Davis, Jon Wiener. Following on from Davis's award-winning L.A. LA was a launchpad for Black Power-where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research, scores of interviews with principal figures of the 1960s movements, and personal histories (both Davis and Wiener are native Los Angelenos). in the Sixties, Mike Davis and Jon Wiener have written the first comprehensive movement history of L.A.
Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of 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. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo 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.
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