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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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Revolt Of The Cochroach People
• Author: Oscar Zeta Acosta
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1
• EAN: 9780679722120
• ISBN: 0679722122
• ID: 01390438
• Publisher: Random House
• Weight: 204 g
• Dimensions: 202 × 144 × 16 mm

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