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The Revolt of the Cockroach People
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The Revolt of the Cockroach People Paperback - 1989

by Acosta, Oscar Zeta

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  • Title The Revolt of the Cockroach People
  • Author Acosta, Oscar Zeta
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 262
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1989-08-28
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 733287-6
  • 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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From the rear cover

In this exhilarating sequel to The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Acosta takes 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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"Acosta has entered counterculture folklore:"

-- Saturday Review of Literature

About the author

Born in 1935, Oscar Zeta Acosta was an activist in the Chicano Movement and an attorney. His friendship with Hunter S. Thompson provided fodder for that author's best-known work, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, in which Acosta was dramatized as the eccentric Samoan attorney Dr. Gonzo. Acosta disappeared in Mexico in 1974 and is presumed dead.