Jon Wiener’s most recent book, “Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties,” co-authored by Mike Davis, was an L.A. Times bestseller. It’s a movement history of the city where Malcolm X got his start and Angela Davis became America’s most famous radical. The spine of the book is the movements of Black and Chicano activists, around which swirled the anti-war movement, women’s liberation, gay liberation, and the counterculture. Jon is also professor emeritus of history at UC Irvine and a contributing editor to The Nation, where he hosts the magazine’s weekly podcast “Start Making Sense.” He is the author of six earlier books, including “Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files,” which recounts his experiences as a plaintiff in a Freedom of Information lawsuit against the FBI. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times.