The Revolt of the Cockroach People Paperback - 1989
by Oscar Zeta Acosta
From the rear cover
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 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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- Title The Revolt of the Cockroach People
- Author Oscar Zeta Acosta
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 262
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1989-08-28
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780679722120 / 0679722122
- Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 8.08 x 5.28 x 0.58 in (20.52 x 13.41 x 1.47 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Mexican Americans - California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Calif.) - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 88040355
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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