SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE
Mike Davis and Jon Wiener, authors of Set the Night on Fire L.A. in the Sixties, will be in a live conversation with Robin Kelley who is the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA and author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. Note that August 11 is the…
Author Jon Wiener, Professor Emeritus at UCI, was profiled in the UCI Humanties Magazine. Read Megan Cole’s piece titled “Revolutionary Los Angeles” here.
The Nation had a special event with the authors on 7/20/2020. “Award-winning radical historian of Southern California Mike Davis and Nation contributing writer Jon Wiener trace the city’s turbulent era of rebellion and police brutality and show how it connects us to the present moment with people out in the streets again. This special event is free of charge but pre-registration…
This episode features an interview with Jon Wiener regarding his new book, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, which he co-authored with Mike Davis. The book provides a comprehensive history of the civil rights movement in Los Angeles during the 1960s. Listen to the interview here.
“July 4, 1969, was a day of festive parades and picnics across Southern California: Pacific Palisades had its annual “Americanism” parade, the West Covina parade had two Vietnam vets for its grand marshals and Claremont had an ‘Old Tyme Parade.’” Read the full article here.