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

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

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 a…

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