{"product_id":"set-the-night-on-fire-l-a-in-the-sixties","title":"Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThis riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a “history from below, in the very best sense” as it celebrates the “grassroots heroes and struggles” of the social movements of the era (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNatural Causes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Authoritative and impressive.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Monumental.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power—where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of “Asian American” as a political identity. It was a locus of the antiwar movement, gay liberation movement, and women’s movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of interviews with principal figures, as well as the authors’ storied personal histories as activists. Following on from Davis’s award-winning L.A. history, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCity of Quartz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSet the Night on Fire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a historical tour de force, delivered in scintillating and fiercely beautiful prose.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43000213405757,"sku":"1839761229","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2220\/7891\/files\/81LeBghit2L._SL1500.jpg?v=1771456964","url":"https:\/\/tia-chuchas.myshopify.com\/products\/set-the-night-on-fire-l-a-in-the-sixties","provider":"Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural \u0026 Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}