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Laddar... Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixtiesav Mike Davis, Jon Wiener (Författare)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. took me ~4 months on and off but i finally finished it!!!!! i liked this book a lot but it was Very long and at times unfocused, so i found myself taking regular breaks. i was particularly unimpressed with the chapter on women's lib, tacked on towards the end, that mostly covered the early 70s - it's like... okay to acknowledge that women's lib wasn't a major issue in LA in the 60s and leave it there... i would prefer that to feeling like an afterthought! but that said all the content was interesting, and in particular the two chapters which recounted events for which mike davis was present were absolutely riveting reading. if you have the time and patience, much of this is essential reading for understanding the social climate that shaped not only LA but america in the latter half of the 20th century. ( ) "The atmosphere was charged with the special excitement that occurs when a group of people can see and visibly measure their potential power for the first time." I wish this could've been the epic sprawl Mike Davis and Jon Weiner hinted at in the beginning of the book (the main text is ~640 pages, the rest being references and notes). Instead, due to publisher concerns—and maybe lack of endurance—we're provided with an account that mostly focuses on the city proper. A damn good one, mind you. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
A magisterial, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the SixtiesLos Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Powerwhere 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 womens movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture. Mike 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, City of Quartz, Set the Night on Fire is a historical tour de force, delivered in scintillating and fiercely beautiful prose. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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