Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties on Morning Star

Best of 2020: Books Notes From An Apocalypse

Calum Barnes featured Set The Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties on Morning Star’s Best of 2020: Books.

“While it was easy to embrace the isolation and indulge in the doomsday atmosphere, the moment offered pause to return to histories of collective action that could provide succour for future struggles.

Mike Davis and Jon Wiener’s Set the Night on Fire (Verso), a comprehensive history of LA social movements in the ’60s, proved an invigorating and inspiring read as Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the US.”

Read the full feature here.