[The Nation]

Mike Davis, author and activist, radical hero and family man, died October
25 after a long struggle with esophageal cancer; he was 76. He's best
known for his 1990 book about Los Angeles, City of Quartz. Marshall
Berman, reviewing it for The Nation, said it combined "the radical
citizen who wants to grasp the totality of his city's life, and the
urban guerrilla aching to see the whole damned thing blow."

And the whole thing did blow, two years after the book was published. When
the Rodney King riots broke out in LA in 1992, frightened white people
rushed home, locked the doors, and turned on the TV news. Mike, however,
was driving in the opposite direction, with his old friend Ron Schneck at
his side. They parked, got out, and started talking with the people in the
streets about what was going on. Then he went home and wrote about it.
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