SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE: L.A. IN THE SIXTIES
Book ID/图书代码： 13850020C00279
English Summary/英文概要： A magisterial, kaleidoscopic, riveting history of Los Angeles in the Sixties Histories of the US Sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an epicenter of that decade’s political and social earthquake. LA was a launchpad for Black Power--where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation--and home to the Chicano walkouts and Moratorium, as well as birthplace of "Asian America" as a political identity, base of the antiwar movement, and of course, center of California counterculture. Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive history of LA in the Sixties, drawing on extensive archival research, scores of interviews with principal figures of the 1960s movements, and personal histories (both Davis and Wiener are native Los Angelenos). Following on from Davis’s award-winning LA history, City of Quartz, and picking up where the celebrated California historian Kevin Starr left off (his eight-volume history of California ends in 1963), Set the Night on Fire is a fascinating historical corrective, delivered in scintillating and fiercely elegant prose.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在美國６０年代的歷史中，洛杉磯曾有雄偉的、千變萬化的、令人著迷的歷史。
美國六十年代的歷史總是聚焦於紐約市，但洛杉磯才是那十年政治和社會地震的中心。洛杉磯是黑人民權運動的發射台-知名黑人民權運動者麥爾坎·X和黑豹黨領袖安吉拉·戴維斯都是發跡於此，1965年此地的華茲區逮捕事件演變為震撼整個國家的運動，這裡也是奇卡諾罷工的所在地，和「亞裔美國人」建立起政治認同的中心，更是反戰運動的基地和反文化運動的中心。
在本書中，城市歷史學家Mike Davis和Jon Wiener通過廣泛的檔案研究、對1960年代運動主要人物的訪談以及個人經歷（他們兩位都是土生土長的洛杉磯人），為我們講述了六十年代洛杉磯引人入勝的故事。
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Awards/获奖情况：“The familiar, monochromatic picture of Los Angeles in the sixties—all Hollywood pop and Didion ennui—required a million people of African, Asian, and Mexican ancestry to be ‘edited out of utopia,’ as Mike Davis and Jon Wiener put it. What those people actually did, alongside antiwar feminists, high school students, and others, is the heart of this book, and it’s a big heart. No one could tell these intersecting stories better than Davis and Wiener, and their book gives us back a great city’s greatness in its movements, edges, and other centers, so many of them forgotten.”
—Rebecca Solnit, author of Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
About the Author/作者介绍： Mike Davis是美國作家、政治活動家、城市理論家和歷史學家。他以對家鄉南加州權力和社會階層的研究而聞名。他是麥克阿瑟獎和蘭南文學獎的得主。
Jon Wiener是《國家週報》廣播節目「Start Making Sense」的主持人和製作人， 他是加州大學歐文分校（UC Irvine）的美國歷史名譽教授，他的最新著作是《我們如何忘記冷戰：一段橫跨美國的歷史之旅》。
Mike Davis is the author of several books including City of Quartz, The Monster at Our Door, Buda’s Wagon, and Planet of Slums. He is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Diego. Jon Wiener is host and producer of "Start Making Sense," The Nation’s weekly podcast. He is an emeritus professor of US history at UC Irvine, and his most recent book is How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey Across America. He lives in Los Angeles.
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