Alex Ross shared that “Jon Wiener and Mike Davis’s ‘Set the Night on Fire’ is a revelatory history of Los Angeles in the 1960s, undermining pervasive media myths of the era” on the Wall Street Journal. Read more about it here.
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10/23/2020 — L.A. in the Sixties: L.A. Institute for the Humanities Talk
Jon Wiener discussed Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties during an online event via Zoom with the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities last October 23, 2020. Histories of the sixties in the United States invariably overlook Southern California, but Los Angeles was the epicenter of that decade’s political and social earthquake.…
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties — Rain Taxi
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties was reviewed in Rain Taxi by Paul Buhle. “Two veteran authors allow themselves vast detail to tell about us about the cradle of “counterculture,” in all the far-flung rebellious meanings of the term. It is also the story of L.A.’s contested racial space, with contradictions ranging…
How Today’s Uprisings Compare to the 1960s Rebellions
Jon Wiener discussed Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties with Robert Scheer on the Scheer Intelligence podcast on September 17, 2020. “The core of this book is a chronological narrative of Black and Latino [people] organizing in struggle. It’s a movement history that starts in 1960, when young Black people in L.A.…