| Abbie Hoffman, American Rebel Contributor(s): Jezer, Marty (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813520177 ISBN-13: 9780813520179 Publisher: Rutgers University Press OUR PRICE: $37.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1993 Annotation: The author takes a look into the life of Abbie Hoffman. The focus is on Abbie's life as an activist: the social, cultural, and political milieu in which he worked; the ideas that inspired his work; and what happened to America when he put his ideas into action. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Political - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Radicalism - History | Military - Vietnam War |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 92007766 |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.03" W x 9.09" (1.22 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this sympathetic history of a maligned decade, Marty Jezer, a fellow antiwar activist, details Abbie Hoffman's humor, manic energy, depressive spells, political skills, & above all, his incurable & still contagious optimism. He presents a thoughtful, solidly researched biography of the wildly creative & iconoclastic Yippie, portraying Hoffman as a fresh force in American political culture. Jezer surveys in detail the politics, philosophies, & struggles of the antiwar movement. "... Abbie, more than any other radical, showed potheads how to demonstrate and radicals how to dance." -- Chicago Tribune "... deeply sympathetic and scrupulously detached-a triumph of judicious empathy." -- MARTIN DUBERMAN, Distinguished Professor of History, Lehman/The Graduate School, C.U.N.Y. "... details Hoffman's humor, manic energy, depressive spells, political skills, and above all, his Incurable and still contagious optimism." -- Entertainment Weekly "Here's the Abbie I knew and loved Marty Jezer has captured him in all his complexity, dedication, humor, and heart." -- ANITA HOFFMAN |