JON WIENER, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Even folks who live here, as I have since 1975, may have little idea of the central role Los Angeles played in the culture and politics of the 1960s. Too often LA is portrayed as surfing, Hollywood, and gogo dancing - think Gidget, Beach Boys, 77 Sunset Strip. Wiener and co-author, Mike Davis (City of Quartz) offer a \u201cmovement history\u201d featuring early Black Power, the Watts uprising, the Chicano Moratorium, and LA\u2019s star turn as a locus of the anti-war, gay lib, and women\u2019s movements, as well as a driving force of much of 60\u2019s counterculture. Wiener and I both arrived here for the first time in 1969 and this conversation is a lot of fun.
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