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Subject: Mike Davis, reporter and trouble maker, 76
[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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