How 1970s Pop Culture Cemented Today’s Partisan Divisions
Journalist Ronald Brownstein Explores the Creative Explosion in Los Angeles That Prefigures Our Current Politics
Longtime political journalist Ronald Brownstein paid a visit to Zócalo yesterday to speak about his new book, Rock Me On the Water: 1974- The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics.
In conversation with Los Angeles Times columnist Sandy Banks, Brownstein, who is a senior editor at the Atlantic and senior political analyst at CNN, explored the complexities of the early 1970s, and the era’s relationship to the mainstream social engagement of pop culture today.
The discussion, titled “How Did Politics and Pop Culture Become One?,” captured a moment of …
