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.
The Revolt of the Cockroach People
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Author: Oscar Zeta Acosta
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780679722120
Details:
Author: Oscar Zeta Acosta
Brand: Vintage
Color: Tan
Binding: Paperback
Format: Box set
Number Of Pages: 262
Release Date: 28-08-1989
Package Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780679722120
