 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. |
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.