![]() ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() 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. 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. Davis and Wiener have created an important book to read in a time where LA needs more than ever to be mobilized. This huge and exhilarating work of history aims to restore some depth and accuracy to how we talk about Los Angeles in the 1960s. ![]()
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