ISBN 9780679722120 | 0679722122 Textbooks - "The Revolt of the Cockroach People" by ACOSTA Oscar Zeta Acosta Hunter S Oscar Zeta Oscar Zeta Acosta Marco and Thompson

Authors: ACOSTA - Oscar Zeta Acosta - Hunter S. - Oscar Zeta - Oscar Zeta; Acosta - Marco and Thomp…
ISBN 10: 0679722122
ISBN 13: 9780679722120
Release: August 28, 1989
Format: Paperback (262 pages)
List Price: $13.95
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Tags: Biographies & Memoirs, Historical,

Book Description:
The further adventures of "Dr. Gonzo" as he defends the "cucarachas" -- the Chicanos of East Los Angeles.Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo" a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge.In this exhilarating sequel to The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Acosta takes us behind the front lines of the militant Chicano movement of the late sixties and early seventies, a movement he served both in the courtroom and on the barricades. Here are the brazen games of "chicken" Acosta played against the Anglo legal establishment; battles fought with bombs as well as writs; and a reluctant hero who faces danger not only from the police but from the vatos locos he champions. What emerges is at once an important political document of a genuine popular uprising and a revealing, hilarious, and moving personal saga.

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The Revolt of the Cockroach People