Mike Davis, Jon Wiener

Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A magisterial, kaleidoscopic, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the sixties.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 800
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 130mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 583g
• ISBN-13: 9781839761225
• ISBN-10: 1839761229
• Artikelnr.: 60017392

Autorenporträt

Mike Davis (1946-2022) was a writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian. He is best known for his investigations of power and class in works such as City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Planet of Slums. His last two non-fiction books are Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, co-authored by Jon Wiener, and The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism. He was the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award.