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.…