'Good American writers know their job has something to do with interrogating the spiritual poverty of the nation'.

Tunes

Bob Dylan's 115th Dream - Bob Dylan

The Big Stick - Minutemen

Hallelujah I'm a Bum - Barbara Dane

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Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Verso, 2018.

——. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. Verso, 2018.

——, Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class. Verso, 2018.

—— and Jon Weiner. Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties. Verso, 2020.

Debord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle. Marxists.org, 1967.

Elba, Max. Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che. Verso, 2018.

Harris, Malcolm. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. Little Brown, 2023.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art. Clarendon Press, 1988.

Jameson, Frederic. The Antinomies of Realism. Verso, 2013.

Kinzer, Stephen. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. Holt, 2019.

Mair, Peter. Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy. Verso, 2013.

O’Neill, Tom. Chaos: The Truth Behind the Manson Murders. Penguin, 2019.

Panitch, Leo and Gindin, Sam. The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of the American Empire. Verso, 2013.

Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day.

—, Bleeding Edge.

—, The Crying of Lot 49.

—, Gravity’s Rainbow.

—, Inherent Vice.

—, Mason & Dixon.

—, V.

—, Vineland.

Sheehan, Helena. Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism. Monthly Review Press, 2019.

Steinbeck, John. In Dubious Battle.

Turner, Fred. From Counterculture to Cyberculture. University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Underwood, Ted. Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change. University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Watt, Ian. Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. University of California Press, 2001.

Webb, Gary. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, Old Street Publishing, 2015.

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