Oscar Zeta Acosta: The Revolt of the Cockroach People
The Revolt of the Cockroach People
Buch
- Introduction by Hunter S. Thompson. Afterword by Marco Acosta
- Random House UK, 08/1989
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780679722120
- Artikelnummer: 8906255
- Umfang: 262 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr: 1989
- Gewicht: 201 g
- Maße: 203 x 131 mm
- Stärke: 20 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 28.8.1989
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Rezension
"Acosta has entered counterculture folklore:"-- Saturday Review of Literature
Klappentext
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.