Set the Night on Fire

By Mike Davis Jon Wiener

Los Angeles Times BestsellerThis riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a “history from below, in the very best sense” as it celebrates the “grassroots heroes and struggles&rd...

Set the Night on Fire

By Jon Wiener, Mike Davis

Los Angeles Times Bestseller This riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a “history from below, in the very best sense” as it celebrates the “grassroots heroes and struggles&r...

Planet of Slums

By Mike Davis

Buda s Wagon

By Mike Davis

Planet of Slums

By Mike Davis

The World According to Tomdispatch

By Tom Engelhardt

Tomdispatch.com has established itself as the go-to blog for contemporary US politics, and the favored website for leading commentators; its powerful, no-holds-barred essays resonate throughout the...

City of Quartz

By Mike Davis

Prisoners of the American Dream

By Mike Davis

Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world’s most...

Magical Urbanism

By Mike Davis

Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams AwardIs the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? Will California soon hold the balance of power in Mexican national politics...

Late Victorian Holocausts

By Mike Davis

This global environmental and political history “will redefine the way we think about the European colonial project” (Observer). “ . . . sets the triumph of the late 19th-century...